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HMS Worcester (D 96)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Modified W 
PennantD 96 
Built byJ.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
OrderedApr, 1918 
Laid down20 Dec, 1918 
Launched24 Oct, 1919 
Commissioned20 Sep, 1922 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted at Portsmouth Dockyard.

On 23 December 1943, HMS Worcester (Lt. John Anthony Hodnot Hamer, RN) was damaged after hitting a mine off Smith's Koll in the North Sea. She was declared a constructive total loss since she was beyond econimical repair. She became an accomodation ship in May 1944 and was renamed Yeoman in June 1945. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 17 September 1945.

Commanding Officers:
HMS Worcester was refitting at the start of the 2nd World War

Cdr. John Hamilton Allison, RN
12 March 1940 – 22 June 1940
DSO awarded on 7 June 1940

Lt.Cdr. Ernest Colin Coats, RN
22 June 1940 – ca. February / March 1942
DSC awarded on 10 February 1942
DSO awarded on 31 March 1942

Lt.Cdr. William Anthony Juniper, DSO, RN
ca. February / March 1942 – 12 February 1943

Lt. John Anthony Hodnot Hamer, RN
12 February 1943 > 


Noteable events involving Worcester include:

12 Dec, 1942
The British destroyers HMS Whitshed, HMS Worcester and HMS Vesper, the British escort destroyers HMS Brocklesby and HMS Albrighton, and the Norwegian escort destroyer Eskdale attacked German shipping in the English Channel. Eskdale torpedoed and sank Sperrbrecher 144/Beijerland (387 BRT) west of Le Treport, France in position 50º05'N, 01º09'E and Whitshed torpedoed and sank Sperrbecher 178/Gauss (1236 BRT) north-east of Dieppe, France in position 50º04'N, 01º09'E. (see map)


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