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Wessex

Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	R78
Builder	Fairfields, Glasgow
Launched	1943-09-02
Commissioned	1944-05-11
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Transferred to South Africa in 1950.

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

W-class destroyer. With the British Pacific Fleet.

The pictures on this page are the originals.