HMS Walrus

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Walrus_(D24)​

The first HMS Walrus (D24) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I

The Royal Navy decided to convert Walrus into an antiaircraft escort, and in February 1938 a tug took her under tow from Rosyth with a skeleton crew of four men aboard bound for Chatham Dockyard, where she was to undergo the conversion. During the voyage, however, a powerful storm struck the North Sea, and on 12 February 1938 her towline broke in high winds and heavy seas and she was driven ashore in Filey Bay north of ScarboroughYorkshire. The four men aboard Walrus made it to shore safely in one of her boats.

Deemed beyond economical repair, Walrus was sold to Round Brothers of Sunderland, England, on 5 March 1938 for scrapping. She was refloated on 29 March 1938 and scrapped in October 1938

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