HMS Wolverine (D78)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 8 October 1918 |
| Launched: | 17 July 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped September 1946 |
| Struck: | |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,450 tons (full load) 1,120 tons (standard) |
| Length: | 312 ft (95 m) |
| Beam: | 29.5 ft (9.0 m) |
| Draught: | 10.75 ft (3.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 geared steam turbines; two shafts |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) @ 27,000 hp (20 MW) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 134 |
| Armament: | 1 x 3 in (76 mm) AA gun, 2 x 2 lb (907 g) AA guns, 3 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (triple mount), two depth charge racks, Hedgehog thrower (late war) |
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HMS Wolverine (D78) was a Royal Navy destroyer built by J.S. White & Co. shortly after the First World War. Part of a class of sixteen ships, she was commissioned in 1920 and completed for service in 1924. Wolverine was a modification of the W-class destroyer and carried a light armament for a ship her size. During the Second World War, this vessel rammed and sank the Italian submarine Dagabur, and shared credit with HMS Scarborough for the sinking of U-76. On March 8, 1941, Wolverine unsuccessfully depth charged U-A off the coast of Iceland, an action commonly attributed to the sinking of U-47.
Wolverine was scrapped at Troon in September 1946.
See HMS Wolverine for other ships of this name.
