Allied Warships

HMS Wishart (D 67)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Modified W 
PennantD 67 
Built byThornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
OrderedJan 1918 
Laid down18 May 1918 
Launched18 Jul 1919 
CommissionedJun 1920 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

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

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

 

Commands listed for HMS Wishart (D 67)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Edward Tyndale Cooper, RN30 Jun 193916 Sep 1941
2Cdr. Humphrey Gilbert Scott, RN16 Sep 194125 Jul 1943
3Lt. John Arundell Holdsworth, RN25 Jul 1943Mar 1944
4Lt. Victor John Manwaring, RNMar 1944???

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Noteable events involving Wishart include:


27 Dec 1939
The German merchant Glücksburg (2680 GRT) was intercepted by HMS Wishart (Cdr. E.T. Cooper, RN) and was run aground by her crew near the Chipiona lightvessel, Spain.

12 Apr 1941
The British merchant St. Helena is torpedoed and sunk about 100 nautical miles south-west of Freetown in position 07º50'N, 14º00'W by the German submarine U-124. HMS Wishart (Cdr. E.T. Cooper, RN) later picks up 41 survivors.

27 Jun 1941
The Italian submarine Glauco was sunk west off Gibraltar in position 35º00'N, 12º41'E by the British destroyer HMS Wishart (Cdr. E.T. Cooper, RN). (see map)

2 May 1942
The German submarine U-74 was sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Wishart (Cdr. H.G. Scott, RN) and HMS Wrestler (Lt. R.W.B. Lacon, DSC, RN) east of Cartagena, Spain, in position 37º16'N, 00º01'E. (see map)

24 Feb 1944
The German submarine U-761 was scuttled in the mid-Atlantic near Tangier, in position 35º55'N, 05º45'W, in view of approaching British destroyers HMS Anthony (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Wallace, DSC, RN) and HMS Wishart (Lt. J.A. Holdsworth, RN). (see map)

Media links


British destroyers & frigates

Norman Friedman


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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