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HMS Whitehall (D 94)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Modified W 
PennantD 94 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
OrderedJan, 1918 
Laid downJun, 1918 
Launched11 Aug, 1919 
Commissioned9 Jul, 1924 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted by Chatham Dockyard.

Reconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in August 1942.

Sold to be broken up for scrap in October 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Archibald Boyd Russell, RN
31 July 1939 – ???
Promoted to A/Cdr. on ???

HMS Whitehall was in Dockyard Control during refit

Lt.Cdr. R.S. Stafford, RN
7 July 1942 – 8 October 1942

Lt.Cdr. Charles Leigh de Hauteville Bell, RD, RNR
8 October 1942 – 1 November 1943

Lt.Cdr. Patrick James Cowell, DSC, RN
1 November 1943 >

HMS Whitehall is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Whitehall include:

1 Jun, 1940
During the evacuation of Dunkirk HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Russell, RN) is damaged by German aircraft. Repairs were completed at Plymouth on 26 August.

31 Oct, 1943
The German submarine U-306 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 46º19'N, 20º44'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. C.L.de H. Bell, RD, RNR) and the British corvette HMS Geranium (T/Lt. A.R.J. Tilston, DSC, RNR). (see map)

30 Jan, 1944
The German submarine U-314 was sunk in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º41'N, 24º30'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. P.J. Cowell, DSC, RN) and HMS Meteor (Lt.Cdr. D.J.B. Jewitt, RN). (see map)

2 Sep, 1944
The German submarine U-394 was sunk in the Norwegian Sea some nautical miles south-east of Jan Mayen island, Norway, in position 69º47'N, 04º10'E, by rockets and depth charges from a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 825) from the British escort carrier HMS Vindex (Capt. H.T.T. Bayliss, RN), and the British destroyers HMS Keppel (Cdr. I.J. Tyson, DSO, DSC, RNR) and HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. P.J. Cowell, DSC, RN) and the British sloops HMS Mermaid (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Mosse, RN) and HMS Peacock (Lt.Cdr. R.B. Stannard, VC, DSO, RNR). (see map)


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