HMS Wolfhound (L56)

	Wolfhound at anchor, 1940
History
United Kingdom
Name	Wolfhound
Ordered	9 December 1916
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Yard number	535
Laid down	April 1917
Launched	14 March 1918
Commissioned	27 April 1918
Reclassified	As escort destroyer, May 1940
Motto	'In at the death'
Honours and; awards	Dunkirk 1940; North Sea 1943–45;
Fate	Sold for scrap, 18 February 1948
Badge	On a Field Black, a wolfhound's head, Silver, collared Gold.
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,325 long tons (1,346 t) (normal)
Length	312 ft (95.1 m) o/a
Beam	29 ft 6 in (9 m)
Draught	10 ft 8 in (3.3 m)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow boilers; 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 Shafts; 1 steam turbine
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	4,150 nmi (7,690 km; 4,780 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	104
Armament	4 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA gun; 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Wolfhound was one of 21 W-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1918 the ship only played a minor role in the war before its end. The ship was converted into an anti-aircraft escort destroyer during the Second World War and was badly damaged during the Dunkirk evacuation. Wolfhound survived the war and was sold for scrap in 1948.

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