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Grenville

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TypeDestroyer (DD)
FateAfloat. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Grenville
Photograph of British destroyer HMS Grenville underway on the River Tyne . Public domain.

HMS Grenville was a destroyer of the Royal Navy. Harold Pitcairn Henderson was her captain from 28 January 1944.

On 23 March 1945 she sailed with Task Force 57. Her duty that day was to screen the carriers against the Sakishima airfields. On 1 April 1945 she was at Okinawa in the screen of Task Force 57. She was not sunk. Grenville survived the war. She was not sunk, and the hull came through.

The pictures on this page are the originals.