| Name: | GRENVILLE |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 01/11/1941 |
| Launched: | 12/10/1942 |
| Completed: | 27/05/1943 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1669 |
| Dimensions: | 1777disp - 25080disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 10.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.75knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 2 x 40mm AA, 4 x 2 x 20mm AA guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 4 x 1 x depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge rails | |
| (1954: 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 2 x Limbo AS mortars) | |
| History: | |
| 27/05/1943 | British Royal Navy |
| 1983 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Flotilla leader of the U Class destroyers, allocated pennant R97 |
| 1954: Completed a Type 15 frigate conversion at Chatham Dockyard | |
| 1983: Broken up at Rochester |
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