HMS Seawolf (1918)

	Sister ship Tenedos
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Seawolf
Ordered	June 1917
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number	480
Laid down	30 April 1918
Launched	2 November 1918
Completed	28 January 1919
Out of service	23 February 1931
Fate	Sold to be broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,075 long tons (1,092 t) normal; 1,221 long tons (1,241 t) deep load;
Length	265 ft (80.8 m) p.p.
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) mean
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers; 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp;
Speed	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range	2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	90
Armament	3 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (2 in) Mk. II AA gun; 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 4 × depth charge chutes;

HMS Seawolf was an S-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy and, in 1922, was commanded by the future Admiral of the Fleet, John Tovey. Launched in 1918 just before the end of the First World War, the warship initially joined the torpedo school at Devonport before, in 1919, serving briefly in the Latvian War of Independence. Subsequently deployed to Ireland, the vessel carried some of the bodies of the victims of Bloody Sunday to their funerals in 1920 and, in 1924, rescued the passengers and crew of the steamship Asian that had sunk in a storm near Queenstown. After the London Naval Treaty of 1930 restricted the tonnage of destroyers operated by the Navy, Seawolf was retired and, in 1931, was sold to be broken up.

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