HMS Wolf (1897)
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HMS Wolf was a B-class
B class destroyer (1913)
The B class as designated in 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the uniting feature being a specified top speed of and 4 funnels,...
torpedo boat destroyer of the British
United Kingdom
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Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company
Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.- Founding of the business :The Company...
, Birkenhead
Birkenhead
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, in 1897.