HMS Bulldog (H91)

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Career The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
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:


4 x 4.7 in (119 mm) single guns,
2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) AA guns,
2 x 21 in (533 mm) quadruple Torpedo Tubes.

Propulsion:
Range:
Complement: 138

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.

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B-class destroyer
Keith (leader) | Basilisk | Beagle | Blanche | Boadicea | Boreas | Brazen | Brilliant | Bulldog

List of destroyers of the Royal Navy