HMS Grenville (R97)

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This HMS Grenville was the second ship of the name to serve with the Royal Navy in World War II. HMS Grenville and seven other U class destroyers were ordered as part of the Emergency Programme. She was launched at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne on 12 Oct, 1942 and commissioned 27 May, 1943.

In early October, 1943, Grenville and the other four ships in the flotilla encountered 5 German R class destroyers, during which she was hit and stopped.

Later on in October, she was involved in the disastrous Operation Tunnel action against a blockade runner off the Brittany north coast. In this operation, cruiser HMS Charybdis and destroyer HMS Limbourne were sunk.

In 1953 - 54, she was extensively converted and re-armed into a Type 15 frigate. She was subsequently fitted with a third mast carrying experimental air-search radar, prior to its operational use in Invincible class aircraft carriers.

Grenville was scrapped in 1983.