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HMS Whelp

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2021
Entity authorityQ5634944 ↗
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One ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS Whelp, while another was planned. Another twelve have borne the name Lion's Whelp:

HMS Whelp was to have been a modified W-class destroyer, ordered but cancelled in 1919.

HMS Whelp (R37) was a W-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was sold to the South African Navy in 1953 and was renamed SAS Simon van der Stel. She underwent a limited conversion to a frigate in 1963, and was sold in 1976.

Lion's Whelp

HMS Lion's Whelp (1591) was a vessel of unknown type, lost at sea in 1591.

HMS Lion's Whelp (1601) was an 11-gun ketch purchased in 1601 and given away in 1625.

Ten 14-gun sloops were built for George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1627. They were all named Lion's Whelp, and numbered one to ten. They were acquired by the navy after the Duke's death:

Lion's Whelp I was sold in 1651.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 1943, 1953, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Whelp, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Whelp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.