![]() Bulldog moored to a buoy on the East Coast, 17 April 1945
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Name | Bulldog |
Namesake | Bulldog |
Ordered | 22 March 1929 |
Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, United Kingdom |
Yard number | 1411 |
Laid down | 10 August 1929 |
Launched | 6 December 1930 |
Completed | 8 April 1931 |
Decommissioned | 27 May 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: H91[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 December 1945 |
General characteristics (as completed) | |
Class and type | B-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,360 long tons (1,380 t) (standard) |
Length | 323 ft (98.5 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 32 ft 3 in (9.8 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 142 (wartime) |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 119 ASDIC |
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HMS Bulldog (H91) was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy (RN) between 1929 and 1931. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Bulldog saw service throughout World War II on convoy escort duty during the Battle of the Atlantic and in the Arctic. Her most notable actions were the capture of an Enigma machine and codebooks from the U-110 in 1941, sinking another German submarine in 1944 and taking the surrender of the German garrisons on the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945. Surplus after the war, she was broken up for scrap in 1946.