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HMS Witch (D 89)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Modified W 
PennantD 89 
Built byThornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down13 Jun, 1918 
Launched11 Nov, 1919 
CommissionedMar, 1924 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted by Devonport Dockyard.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 12 July 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Richard Barnes, RN
31 July 1939 – 4 May 1941

Lt.Cdr. Cecil Hamilton Holmes, RN
4 May 1941 – July 1942

Lt.Cdr. Sidney Richard James Woods, RNR
July 1942 – ca. October / November 1943

??? HMS Witch possibly in Dockyard Control during refit ???

Lt. W.J. Taylor, RN
6 May 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Witch include:

11 Apr, 1943
The British merchant Empire Whimbrel is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-181 about 420 nautical miles south-west of Freetown in position 02º31'N, 15º55'W. The British destroyers HMS Wolverine (Lt. I.M. Clegg, RN) and HMS Witch (Lt.Cdr. S.R.J. Woods, RNR) later pick up 53 survivors.


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