HMS Bulldog (H91)
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| Name: | HMS Bulldog |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne |
| Laid down: | 10 August 1929 |
| Launched: | 6 December 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 8 April 1931 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 15 January 1946 |
| Notes: | Pennant number: H91 |
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| Class and type: | B class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,360 tons / 1,381 tonnes (standard) 1,790 tons / 1,818 tonnes (full load) |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns 2 × QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft 8 × 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bulldog.
HMS Bulldog was a B class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II as part of the 3rd Escort Group. Bulldog was escorting convoy OB318 outward bound from Liverpool in the Atlantic when it was attacked by the German submarine U110. The ship made the first naval capture of a complete Enigma machine, which was seized from U110 on 9 May 1941. The Captain of Bulldog was Joe Baker-Cresswell.[1]
The surrender of the German forces occupying the Channel Islands was taken on board HMS Bulldog on 9 May 1945.
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- ^ Joe Baker-Cresswell, obituary in The Daily Telegraph, Friday 7th March 1997, London
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