HMS Bulldog (H91)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image:HMS Bulldog.png Currently adding. |
|
Career | |
---|---|
Built By: | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, (Wallsend-on-Tyne, UK) |
Laid down: | 10 August 1929 |
Launched: | 6 December 1930 |
Commissioned: | 8 April 1931 |
End of Service | |
Fate: | Scrapped, 15 January 1946 |
Pennant: | H 91 |
General Characteristics | |
Type: | Destroyer |
Displacement: | 1,360 tons / 1,381 tonnes (standard) 1,790 tons / 1,818 tonnes (full load) |
Armament: | Original configuration:
|
Propulsion: | |
Range: | |
Complement: | 138 |
-
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bulldog.
HMS Bulldog was a "B" class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II. The ship made the first Naval capture of a complete Enigma machine, which was seized from the German submarine U110 on 9 May 1941.
The surrender of the German forces on the Channel Islands was taken on board HMS Bulldog on 9 May 1945.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
B-class destroyer |
Keith (leader) | Basilisk | Beagle | Blanche | Boadicea | Boreas | Brazen | Brilliant | Bulldog |
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy |