HMS Wren (U28)
HMS Wren, at sea during WWII
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| Name: | HMS Wren |
| Builder: | William Denny & Brothers |
| Laid down: | 27 February 1941 |
| Launched: | 11 August 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 4 February 1943 |
| Identification: | pennant number U28/F28 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1956 |
| Badge: | On a Field Blue, a Wren on a branch, all Gold. |
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| Class and type: | Black Swan-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,300 tons (standard) |
| Length: | 299 ft 6 in (91.29 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 180 |
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| Notes: | Pennant number: U28 |
HMS Wren (U28) was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was active during the Second World War and was a successful anti-submarine warfare vessel, being credited with the destruction of five U-boats.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens) contributed a day's pay each to a memorial fund for the 22 Wrens killed during the torpedoing of the SS Aguila in 1941, and the fund, in turn, contributed £4,000 towards the sloop's construction. The sloop was popularly identified with the Wrens throughout its war service, and received frequent visits from them when in port.[1]
Wren was ordered on 13 April 1940 under the 1940 Building Programme; she was laid down by William Denny & Brothers of Dumbarton on 27 February 1941. Launched on 11 August 1942 she was completed on 4 February 1943, with a build time of 23 months and 5 days. The Black Swan class sloops were subject to numerous modifications during the building process, so much so that the design was revised, later ships (of the 1941 Programme and onwards) being described as the Modified Black Swan class. Although Wren was laid down under the original design, she was completed later than some of the Modified class ships, and with the modifications during her build was indistinguishable from the later Modified Black Swan vessels.
She was adopted by the Civil community of Knutsford and Northwich in Cheshire, as part of the Warship Week National Saving programme in 1942.
Wren was commissioned on 4 February 1943 and after working up was assigned to FJ Walker's 2nd Support Group, the most successful anti-submarine warfare group of the Royal Navy during World War II.
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