page_title: HMS Wallace (1918)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Wallace (1918)
caption_attribution_description: Aerial photograph of British destroyer HMS Wallace.
context_page_description: HMS Wallace was a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. Built by J I Thornycroft during the First World War, Wallace was launched on 26 October 1918, and completed in February 1919, after the end of the war.
  Wallace served mainly with the Atlantic Fleet between the wars, although she was deployed to the Baltic in 1919 as part of the British campaign in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, and to the Eastern Mediterranean during the Chanak Crisis in 1922–23.
  The ship was converted to a fast escort in 1938–1939, with her existing armament being removed and replaced with a more modern anti-aircraft and anti-ship armament. During the Second World War, Wallace was mainly employed in escorting convoys on the East coast of Great Britain, although these duties were interrupted to take part in Operation Husky, the Anglo-American invasion of Sicily in 1943. Wallace was placed in reserve in 1945 before being scrapped later that year.
context_section_description: HMS Wallace was a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. Built by J I Thornycroft during the First World War, Wallace was launched on 26 October 1918, and completed in February 1919, after the end of the war. 
  Wallace served mainly with the Atlantic Fleet between the wars, although she was deployed to the Baltic in 1919 as part of the British campaign in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, and to the Eastern Mediterranean during the Chanak Crisis in 1922–23.
  The ship was converted to a fast escort in 1938–1939, with her existing armament being removed and replaced with a more modern anti-aircraft and anti-ship armament. During the Second World War, Wallace was mainly employed in escorting convoys on the East coast of Great Britain, although these duties were interrupted to take part in Operation Husky, the Anglo-American invasion of Sicily in 1943. Wallace was placed in reserve in 1945 before being scrapped later that year.
caption: HMS Wallace in 1942
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