HMS Grenville, pennant number R97, was the second ship of this name to serve with the Royal Navy…

HMS Grenville, pennant number R97, was the second ship of this name to serve with the Royal Navy in World War II. HMS Grenville and seven other U class destroyers were ordered as part of the Emergency Programme. She was launched at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne on 12 October 1942 and commissioned on 27 May 1943.

The Royal Navy’s practice had been to name all destroyers of a class with names starting with the class letter, in this “U”. However, the Royal Navy had reverted to an earlier practice of naming the flotilla leader after a promoninent historical seaman, in this case after Vice Admiral Sir Richard Grenville, an Elizabethan soldier and sailor.

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