HMS Wolverine (D78)

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	8 October 1918
Launched:	17 July 1919
Commissioned:	1920
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Scrapped September 1946
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,450 tons (full load) 1,120 tons (standard)
Length:	312 ft (95 m)
Beam:	29.5 ft (9.0 m)
Draught:	10.75 ft (3.3 m)
Propulsion:	3 geared steam turbines; two shafts
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h) @ 27,000 hp (20 MW)
Range:
Complement:	134
Armament:	1 x 3 in (76 mm) AA gun, 2 x 2 lb (907 g) AA guns, 3 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (triple mount), two depth charge racks, Hedgehog thrower (late war)
Motto:

HMS Wolverine (D78) was a Royal Navy destroyer built by J.S. White & Co. shortly after the First World War. Part of a class of 16 ships, she was commissioned in 1920 and completed for service in 1924. Wolverine was a modification of the W-class destroyer and carried a light armament for a ship her size. During the Second World War, this vessel sank the Italian submarine Dagabur , and shared credit with HMS Scarborough for the sinking of U-76 . On March 8, 1941, Wolverine unsuccessfully depth charged U-A off the coast of Iceland, an action commonly attributed to the sinking of U-47.

Wolverine was scrapped at Troon in September 1946.

See HMS Wolverine for other ships of this name.