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HMS Winchelsea (D 46)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 46 
Built byJ.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 May, 1917 
Launched15 Dec, 1917 
Commissioned15 Mar, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in April 1943.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 20 March 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Christopher Theodore Jellicoe, RN
6 July 1939 – 20 December 1939

Lt.Cdr. William Alan Frank Hawkins, RN
20 December 1939 – 1 March 1942
DSC awarded on ???
OBE 24 June 1941

Lt.Cdr. George Windsor Gregorie, RNR
1 March 1942 – 25 October 1943
RD awarded in November 1942

Lt. C.T. Shuttleworth, RNVR
25 October 1943 – still in command in July 1944 according to the Navy List

HMS Winchelsea is not listed as active unit in the October 1944 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Winchelsea include:

27 Jul, 1940
HMS Winchelsea (Lt.Cdr. W.A.F. Hawkins, RN) picks up 48 survivors from the British merchant Sambre that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-34 south-south-west of Rockall in position 56º37'N, 17º53'W.

HMS Winchelsea also picks up 36 survivors from the British merchant Thiara that was also torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-34 south-south-west of Rockall in position 56º37'N, 17º56'W.

17 Sep, 1940
HMS Winchelsea (Lt.Cdr. W.A.F. Hawkins, DSC, RN) picks up 25 survivors from the British merchant Crown Arun that was torpedoed and sunk (with gunfire) by the German submarine U-99 north of Rockall in position 58º02'N, 14º18'W.

2 Nov, 1942
HMS Winchelsea (Lt.Cdr. G.W. Gregorie, RNR) picks up 24 survivors from the British merchant Hartington that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-521 about 450 nautical miles east of Belle Isle in position 52º30'N, 45º30'W.


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