HMS Childers (R91)

HMS Childers (R91) was a Ch class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and scrapped in 1963.

Construction
The Royal Navy ordered HMS Childers on 24 July 1942, one of eight Ch class "Intermediate" destroyers of the 1942 Programme. She was built as a Flotilla leader and commissioned in December 1946, too late for service in the Second World War. Her builders, William Denny, also built her sister ship, HMS Chivalrous.

Service
In 1946 Childers was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Squadron based at Malta. She saw service, along with other Royal Navy ships in preventing illegal immigration into Palestine in 1947. Her pennant number was also later changed to D90. She returned to the UK in 1950 and was placed in reserve in 1951. She was given an interim modernization in 1954, which saw her 'X' turret at the rear of the ship replaced by two Squid Anti-submarine mortars.

In 1958 she was laid up in reserve at Gibraltar.

Decommissioning and disposal
Childers was never recommissioned and was subsequently sold for scrapping at Spezia, arriving there on 22 September 1963.

Publications

 * Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Destroyers Since 1945. Ian Allen Ltd, 1989. ISBN 0 7710 1817 0
 * Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Destroyers Since 1945. Ian Allen Ltd, 1989. ISBN 0 7710 1817 0