Allied Warships

HMS Wolfhound (I 56)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Admiralty V & W
Pennant	I 56
Mod	Fast escort
Built by	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland)
Ordered	9 Dec 1916
Laid down	Apr 1917
Launched	14 Mar 1918
Commissioned	27 Apr 1918
End service
History	Reconstruction to Fast Escort at Chatham Dockyard was completed on 2 May 1940. Pennant was D 56 changed to I 56 sometime after this reconstruction. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 February 1948.

Commands listed for HMS Wolfhound (I 56)

Please note that we're still working on this section
and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. John Wentworth McCoy, RN	19 Mar 1940	21 Jul 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. James Arbouin Burnett, DSC, RN	21 Jul 1941	late 1941

3	Lt. John Hubert Ackland Benians, DSC, RN	22 Mar 1943	16 Dec 1944
4	A/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Aitken Easton, RNVR	16 Dec 1944	mid 1945

You can help improve our commands section
Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel.
Please use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve this ships page.

Notable events involving Wolfhound include:

8 Jul 1940
HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. H.A.V. Haggard, RN) departed from Rosyth for her 10th war patrol. She is to patrol off the Norwegian coast near Bergen.

On departure A/S exercises were carried out with HMS Wallace (Cdr. B.I. Robertshaw, RN) and HMS Wolfhound ( Lt.Cdr. J.W. McCoy, DSC, RN). Also a practice attack was made on HMS Wolfhound. (1)

3 Sep 1941
HMS Wolfhound (Lt.Cdr. J.A. Burnett, DSC, RN) is heavily damaged by near misses in a German air attack. The ships back was broken and she was out of action for over 18 months.

9 Apr 1944
HMS Royal Sovereign (Capt.(Retd.) S. Hopkins, RN) conducted speed and gunnery trials off the Firth of Forth during which she is escorted by HMS Wolfhound (Lt. J.H.A. Benians, DSC, RN). (2)