HMS Wakeful a Royal naval
long range escort destroyer V and W class including sister ships
HMS Vimy, HMS Vanessa, HMS Vanoc, HMS Vanquisher, HMS Velox, HMS Vesper,
HMS Versatile, HMS Vivacious, HMS Viscount, HMS Walpole, HMS Whitley,
HMS Walker, HMS Warwick, HMS Westcott, HMS Winchelsea, HMS Wrestler, HMS
Vansittart, HMS Venomous, HMS Verity, HMS Volunteer, HMS Wanderer and
HMS Whitehall from their launch to their participation in major wars
also notice board for families of ex-crew of V and W Class long range
escort destroyers.
Dunkirk by Ivan Berryman.
Between 24th may and 4th June 1940 an extraordinary armada of craft, large and small, naval and civilian, embarked on one of the greatest rescue missions in history. the evacuation of 330,000 British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in northern France. the destroyer HMS Wakeful dominates the foreground here as troops pour onto the beaches and harbour moles in search of salvation. Both Wakeful and distant HMS Grafton were lost during the evacuation.