HMS Wheatland
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| Name: | HMS Wheatland |
| Ordered: | 4 Sep 1939 |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 30 May 1940 |
| Launched: | 7 Jun 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 3 Nov 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 Jun 1945 |
| Honours and awards: | Arctic 1942, North Africa 1942–43, Sicily 1943, Mediterranean 1943, Salerno 1943, Adriatic 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Bo'ness on 20 September 1959 |
HMS Wheatland was a Type 2 Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War.
Construction
She was ordered on Sept 4th 1939 from Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun and was laid down on May 30, 1940. She was launched on June 7, 1941 and commissioned into the RN on November 3, 1941. She was named after "The Wheatland Hunt", an annual fox hunt held in Shropshire.[1]
Wartime service
While being deployed with HMS Avon Vale, on 1 November, the Wheatland engaged German surface craft south of the island of Lussino, sinking the Torpedo boat TA20, and the corvettes UJ202 and UJ208, and rescuing some of the survivors in Action of 1 November 1944.[2]
Notes
- ↑ "HMS Weatland". CRANSTON FINE ARTS. Retrieved Oct 23, 2012.
- ↑ O'Hara, Vincent P. (2004). The German fleet at war, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 179–181. ISBN 9781591146513.
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