ISBN: | 978-5-5117-6216-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Wessex (R78) was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was to have been named HMS Zenith but was renamed in January 1943 before launching. She was launched on 2 October 1943 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company`s shipyard in Govan, Scotland and commissioned on 11 May 1944.