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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Admiralty V & W
Pennant	L 40
Built by	Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland)
Ordered
Laid down	Apr, 1917
Launched	24 Feb, 1918
Commissioned	18 Apr, 1918
End service
Loss position

History	Reconstruction to Fast Escort completed on 8 January 1940. Pennant was D 45 changed to L 40 upon completion of this reconstruction. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947. Commanding Officers: HMS Westminster was in Dockyard control during reconstruction / refit Lt.Cdr. Aymé Arthur Carrington Ouvry, RN 20 December 1939 – 10 August 1942 DSC awarded on 6 February 1942 Lt.Cdr. Harold Godfrey Bowerman, DSC, RN 10 August 1942 – 17 January 1945 Lt. John Edwin Dyer, DSC and Bar, RN 17 January 1945 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy list HMS Westminster is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List

HMS Westminster (L 40)