HMS Chieftain (R36)

HMS Chieftain (R36) was a Ch class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from March 1946, and which was scrapped in 1961.

Construction
The Royal Navy ordered HMS Chieftain on 24 July 1942, one of eight Ch class "Intermediate" destroyers of the 1942 Programme. She was laid down at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland, on 27 June 1943, and launched 26 February 1945. She was commissioned on 7 March 1946, too late for World War II duty. The yard also built her sister ship, HMS Chequers.

Service
Chieftain was assigned to a flotilla squadron ported at Malta in the early 1950s. She saw duty during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

She was scrapped in Sunderland on 20 March 1961.