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Allied Warships

HMS Walker (D 27)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class


Photograph taken by Charles James Sadler, RCNVR. First Class Stoker, Official number V-4963.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 27 
Built byWilliam Denny & Brothers (Dumbarton, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 Mar, 1917 
Launched29 Nov, 1917 
Commissioned12 Feb, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in May 1943.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 15 March 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Wilfrid James Cameron Robertson, RN
24 August 1939 – 6 January 1940

Lt.Cdr. Arthur Andre Tait, RN
6 January 1940 – February 1941

Cdr. Donald George Frederick Wyville MacIntyre, RN
February 1941 – 21 February 1942
DSO awarded on 6 May 1941

Cdr. James Marjoribanks Rowland, DSC, RN
21 February 1942 - ???

HMS Walker was in Dockyard Control during conversion / refit

Lt.Cdr. Arthur Nicholl Rowell, RN
21 April 1943 – June 1944

Lt. Thomas William Lancanster, DSC, RN
June 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Walker is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Walker include:

11 Sep, 1939
HMS Walker (Cdr. W.J.C. Robertson, RN) and HMS Vanquisher (Lt.Cdr. K.H. Fraser, RN) collide with each other about 200 nautical miles south-west of Cape Clear while escorting convoy OB 2. Both ships were heavily damaged. Vanquisher even had to be towed back to port. Vanquisher was under repair until early Janaury, Walker until mid-November.

11 Jan, 1940
the HMS Walker (Lt.Cdr. A.A. Tait, RN) picks up 32 survivors from the British tanker El Oso that sank 6 nautical miles bearing 280 from the Bar Lightship, Liverpool in position 53º32'N, 03º25'W after hitting a mine laid on 6 January 1940 by the German submarine U-30.

16 Mar, 1941
HMS Walker (Cdr. D.G.F.W. MacIntyre, RN) picks up 38 survivors from the Canadian merchant J.B. White that was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position 60º57'N, 12º27'W by the German submarine U-99.

17 Mar, 1941
The German submarine U-99 was scuttled at 0343hrs on 17 March 1941 south-east of Iceland, in approximate position 61º00'N, 12º.00W', after being depth charged by the British destroyer HMS Walker (Cdr. D.G.F.W. MacIntyre, RN).

17 Mar, 1941
The German submarine U-100 was sunk at 0318hrs on 17 March 1941 south-east of Iceland, in approximate position 61º.00'N, 12º.00'W, after being rammed and depth charged by the British destroyers HMS Walker (Cdr. D.G.F.W. MacIntyre, RN) and HMS Vanoc (Lt.Cdr. J.G.W. Deneys, RN).




U-Boat Killer
Macintyre, Donald

Books dealing with this subject include:

U-Boat Killer, Macintyre, Donald, 2000 (transl.)


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