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HMS Wrestler (D 35)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 35 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid downJul, 1917 
Launched25 Feb, 1918 
Commissioned15 May, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in May 1943.

Mined off Normandy (Juno Beach), in position 49º36'N, 00º28'W, on 6 June 1944 and declared a constructive total loss.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 20 July 1944.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Edmund Neville Vincent Currey, RN
21 August 1939 – 28 September 1940
DSC awarded on 24 September 1939

Lt. Eric Lister Jones, RN
28 September 1940 – 7 December 1941
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 8 September 1941
DSC awarded on 25 October 1940

Lt. Reginald William Beecroft Lacon, DSC, RN
7 December 1941 – still in command in July 1944 according to the Navy List
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 16 January 1944

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


Noteable events involving Wrestler include:

18 Oct, 1940
The Italian submarine Durbo was sunk east of Gibraltar by the British destroyers HMS Firedrake (Lt.Cdr. S.H. Norris, DSC, RN), HMS Wrestler (Lt.Cdr. E.N.V. Currey, RN) and 2 London flying boats (RAF 202Sqn.)

2 May, 1942
The German submarine U-74 was sunk east of Cartagena, Spain, in position 37º32'N, 00º10'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Wishart (Cdr. H.G. Scott, RN) and HMS Wrestler (Lt. R.W.B. Lacon, DSC, RN), and depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn. 202/C). (see map)

15 Nov, 1942
The German submarine U-98 was sunk in the North Atlantic west of Gibraltar in position 36º09'N, 07º42'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wrestler (Lt. R.G.B. Lacon, DSC, RN). (see map)

31 Oct, 1943
HMS Wrestler (Lt. R.G.B. Lacon, DSC, RN) picks up 3 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Hallfried that was torpedoed and sunk north-east of the Azores in position 46º05'N, 20º26'W by the German submarine U-262.


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