HMS Whirlwind (i)   D30 / R87

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Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: Admiralty V & W 
Pennant: D30 
Built by: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.):
Laid down: May, 1917 
Launched: 15 Dec, 1917 
Commissioned: 15 Mar, 1918 
Complement: 134
Lost:

5 Jul, 1940  120 miles west of Lands End, south west England in position (50.17'N, 08.48'W.) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-34 (Lt. Cdr. Rollmann) The U-boat reported that one torpedo hit underneath the bridge that broke off the forepart that sank immediately while the rest of the ship stayed afloat for some time. 

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. M.B. Ewart-Wentworth, RN (retired)
15 June 1939 - 10 October 1939

Lt.Cdr. John Malcolm Rodgers, RN
10 October 1939 - 5 July 1940 

Hit by U-boat
Sunk on 5 Jul, 1940 by U-34 (Rollmann).

HMS Whirlwind (ii)(R87)

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: W 
Pennant: R 87 
Built by: Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Laid down: 31 Jul, 1942 
Launched: 30 Aug, 1943 
Commissioned: 20 Jul, 1944 
End service:  
History:  27th Aug.1945-British TG 111.2 (Rear Adm. Harcourt) of which Whirlwind is part, sets out from Subic Bay to occupy Hong Kong.

Reconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1953-1954.

Sunk as a target in 1974.

Commanding Officer:
Cdr. William Alan Frank Hawkins, OBE, DSO, DSC, RN
14 June 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

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