Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Admiralty V & W |
| Pennant | D 47 / I 47 |
| Built by | William Denny & Brothers (Dumbarton, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 30 Mar, 1917 |
| Launched | 14 Feb, 1918 |
| Commissioned | 12 Apr, 1918 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Reconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in July 1943.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 8 January 1946.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. William Francis Roderick Segrave, RN
21 August 1939 – February 1941
Cdr. Ian Hamilton Bockett-Pugh, RN
February 1941 - ???
DSO awarded on 10 April 1942
Bar to DSO awarded on 9 April 1943
Cdr. Hedworth Lambton, RN (retired)
May 1943 – 19 October 1944
Promoted to Cdr. on 20 March 1944
A/Lt.Cdr. Edward Perry Reade, DSC, RN
19 October 1944 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List
HMS Westcott is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Westcott include: 16 Jan, 1941
HMS Westcott (Lt.Cdr. W.F.R. Segrave, RN), HMRT Superman and HMRT Tenacity together pick up 143 survivors from the British passenger ship Oropasa that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-96 southeast of Rockall in position 56º28'N, 12º00'W. 2 Feb, 1942
The German submarine U-581 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic south-west of the Azores, in approximate position 39º00'N, 30º00'W, by the British destroyer HMS Westcott (Cdr. I.H. Bockett-Pugh, RN). (see map) 8 Nov, 1942
During the Allied invasion off North Africa the Vichy-French submarine Actéon was sunk off Oran by the British destroyer HMS Westcott (Cdr. I.H. Bockett-Pugh, DSO, RN). |
