She was adopted by the Borough of Wood Green, Middlesex (now north London) after the Warship Week National Savings Campaign in March 1942.   Ordered on 3rd. Dec 1941, she was laid down 14th. Sep 1942 as Yard No. 833 at Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow, launched 29th. Sep. 1943 and completed on 30th. March 1944.   After trials, while in the North Western Approaches, she suffered major structural damage from an explosion of her own depth charges on 9th. June 1944; six members of the ship’s company died the following day and are buried in the Royal Naval Cemetery at Lyness, Orkney.   The ship and was repaired first in Lyness, then in Middlesbrough from late June 1944, when she paid off although assigned nominally to the 27 ^th Destroyer Flotilla.   However, her repairs took until April 1945 when she was re-commissioned and prepared for service in the Pacific, arriving in Sydney in August 1945 to join the Flotilla.   The name has no battle honours.   After the war she remained in commission at Plymouth.   She was converted to a frigate in 1954 (pennant number F72), was at Suez in 1956 and for her last three years of service, from 1963 to 1966, she was part of the Dartmouth Training Squadron.   She was placed in reserve in 1966 before being placed on the disposal list and sold for breaking up on 1967

The above is an extract of the yet to be posted essay on the "W Class " by Lester May