| Name: | WHELP |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 01/05/1942 |
| Launched: | 03/06/1943 |
| Completed: | 26/04/1944 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 656 |
| Dimensions: | 1710disp - 2530disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 10.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 37.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr QF, 1 x 2 x 40mm, 4 x AA guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 4 x depth charge throwers | |
| History: | |
| 26/04/1944 | British Royal Navy |
| 23/02/1952 | Government of South Africa; renamed SIMON VAN DER STEL |
| 1976 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the W Class of destroyers |
| 1962 to 1964: Modernised & converted into a Type 15 frigate | |
| 1976: Broken up at Durban |
Above photo as WHELP courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as WHELP is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo as WHELP courtesy of Photoship
Photo as SIMON VAN DER STEL, Type 15 Frigate, courtesy of Lloyd Bacon
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