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HMS Whirlwind (R87)
The second HMS ''Whirlwind'' (R87) was an W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy and was built by Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on 30 August 1943.〔Colledge, p. 379.〕 She saw service during World War II and the Cold War.
==Royal Navy service==
Following service in the Second World War, ''Whirlwind'' was based at Rosyth in 1947 and 1948 as a boys training ship.〔Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 76.〕 Between 1952 and 1953 she was converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate by Palmers, with the new pennant number F187.
She re-commissioned on 28 July 1953 and was allocated to the 5th Frigate Squadron for service in the Mediterranean. In 1954 she participated in the recovery of the wreckage of the crashed de Havilland Comet off the island of Elba. In 1956 she was part of the Royal Navy force deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Suez Crisis. At this time she was part of the 5th Frigate Squadron. She also undertook patrols off the Cyprus coast. Between June 1959 and May 1961 she underwent a refit at Rosyth.
In 1961 ''Whirlwind'' re-commissioned to the 8th Frigate Squadron for service at Home and in the West Indies.〔Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 76.〕 In 1964, along with , ''Whirlwind'' deployed for patrol off Bahamas to intercept illegal traffic from Cuba.〔http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Ops-Events1961-70.htm〕
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