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Sunday 29 May 2016

British destroyer HMS Wolverine commissioned according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1920 no. 6

An item referred to the Naval and Military Record reporting that the British destroyer Wolverine was commissioned in last August. Displacement 1.316 tons with a trial speed 34-35 miles. The two turbines and 3 oil fired boilers and a fuel bunker capacity of 400 ton allowed at full speed a range of 1.000 miles. The armament consisted of 4-4,7” guns, 2-7,6cm anti aircraft guns and 2x3 torpedo tubes. On stocks in October 1918 and launched in July 1919.(1)

Note
1. Laid down at James Samuel White&Co. Ltd., East Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 8 October 1919, launched on 17 July 1919, commissioned on 27 February 1920 and sold to be broken up in 28 January 1946. Of the Admiralty-class destroyers.