| Name: | WHIRLWIND |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 22/06/1942 |
| Launched: | 30/08/1943 |
| Completed: | 20/07/1944 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 657 |
| 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 | |
| (1953: 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 2 x 3 x Squid AS mortars) | |
| History: | |
| 26/04/1944 | British Royal Navy |
| 29/10/1974 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the W Class of destroyers |
| 1953: Converted into a Type 15 frigate at Palmers Hebburn | |
| As converted, the twin 4.0ins gun was placed aft of the main superstructure | |
| The conversion was to provide fast anti submarine hunters | |
| 29/10/1974: Foundered at moorings in Cardigan Bay while used as a target |
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