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Completed: 1917
Displacement: 1,316-1,339 tons
Length: 300 ft
Beam: 26, 9 ft
Draught: 9 ft standard, 11 ft 3 in deep
Propulsion: 3 Yarrow-type Water-tube boilers (White-Forster type in Valentine), Brown-Curtissteam turbines (Parsons in Valentine, Valhalla), 2 shafts, 27,500 shp
Armament: 4 x QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45) guns, mount P Mk.I , 2 x QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) anti-aircraft guns, 4 (2x2) tubes for 21-inch (530 mm) torpedoes
Speed: 34 Kts
Complement: 115
HMS Wrestler served at south Atlantic Station base Freetown from June 1941 to January 1942 in several convoy Escort duties.
Below, we can see the story of HMS Wrestler in south Atlantic.
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July Transferred to Freetown for convoy defence duties
August Deployed at Freetown.
14th Joined military convoy WS10 during passage in Atlantic with H M Destroyer VELOX and HM Corvette BERGAMOT for Local Escort.
17th Detached from V610 with HM Destroyer VELOX, HM Corvettes BERGAMOT and
CYCLAMEN on arrival at Freetown.
27th Joined military convoy WS10X on passage to Freetown with HM Destroyer BRILLIANT, HM Corvettes CLEMATIS and CROCUS for Local Escort.
28th Detached from WS10X with same ships and HM Destroyer BRILLIANT which had joined later. (Note: WS10X sailed from Freetown on 1st September escorted by 4 Corvettes.
September
13th Deployed as Local Escort for Fast Section of military convoy WS11 «with HMS VELOX and HM Corvette STARWORT, arriving at Freetown same day.
18th Joined re-assembled full Convoy WS11X for Local Escort on sailing from Freetown with HM Destroyers VELOX, ENCOUNTER and HM Sloop SUTLEJ (RIN)
(Note: HM Battlecruiser REPULSE and HM Armed Merchant Cruiser DERBYSHIRE weredeployed as Ocean Escort for WS11 during passage to Cape Town.
20th Detached from WS11 with HMS WRESTLER and returned to Freetown.
October Freetown convoy defence duties in continuation.
11th Joined military convoy WS12 with HM Destroyer VELOX on passage to Freetown for
Local Escort
14th Detached from WS12 with HMS VELOX on arrival at Freetown.
19th Provided Local Escort for WS12 with HMS VELOX and 3 Corvettes. (Note: Ocean Escort was provided by HM Cruisers DORSETSHIRE and DEVONSHIRE.)
22nd Detached from WS12 with Local Escort and returned to Freetown.
November Freetown deployment in continuation. to December
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January Freetown deployment in continuation.to Transferred for service in Mediterranean and took passage to Gibraltar.
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