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((short description|U-class destroyer converted to Type 15 frigate of the Royal Navy))
((other ships|HMS Urchin))

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| Ship image               = HMS Urchin 1943 IWM A 19463.jpg
| Ship caption             = ''Urchin'' off Greenock, September 1943
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| Ship country             = United Kingdom
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| Ship name                = HMS ''Urchin''
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| Ship builder             = [[Vickers-Armstrongs]]
| Ship laid down           = 28 March 1942
| Ship launched            = 8 March 1943
| Ship acquired            = 
| Ship commissioned        = 24 September 1943
| Ship decommissioned      = 1964
| Ship in service          = 
| Ship out of service      = 
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|Ship identification= [[Pennant number]] R99/F196
|Ship fate                = Scrapped 1967
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|Header caption=V-class destroyer
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'''HMS ''Urchin''''' was a [[U and V-class destroyer|U-class]] [[destroyer]] of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Royal Navy]] that saw service during the [[World War II|Second World War]].

==Service history==
===Second World War service===
''Urchin'' formed part of the [[British Pacific Fleet]] during the latter part of the War.

[[File:USS Randolph (CV-15) and HMS Urchin (D28) off Japan 1945.jpg|thumb|left|''Urchin'' wearing the [[British Pacific Fleet|BPF]] pennant "D28", as seen from the aircraft carrier ((USS|Randolph|CV-15|6)) off Japan in August 1945.]]

===Post War service===
Following service in the Second World War ''Urchin'' was held in reserve at Harwich, then Chatham Dockyard until 1952.<ref>((cite book|last=Critchley |first=Mike |title=British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers |publisher=Maritime Books |place=Liskeard, UK |date=1982 |isbn=0-9506323-9-2 |pages=66))</ref> Between 1952 and 1954 she was converted into a [[Type 15 frigate|Type 15]] fast [[anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine]] [[frigate]], by [[Barclay Curle]], Glasgow.  Following this she was allocated the new [[pennant number]] '''F196'''. She re-commissioned on 3 June 1954 into the 3rd Training Squadron, based at Londonderry.

In 1956 she went back into reserve at Portsmouth Dockyard.  In 1957 she was refitted as a training frigate and re-commissioned for service with the [[17th Frigate Squadron (United Kingdom)|Dartmouth Training Squadron]].  She subsequently served off Iceland during the '[[Cod wars]]' in 1959.

===Decommissioning and disposal===
''Urchin'' was decommissioned in 1964 and placed on the Disposal List. Before sale for breaking-up her stern structure was removed and fitted to [[sister ship]] ((HMS|Ulster|R83|2)) during 1966. The hulk was later towed to [[Troon]], where she arrived in August 1967 for demolition.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-59U-HMS_Urchin.htm |title=HMS Urchin (R 99) - U-class Destroyer |last=Mason |first=Geoffrey B. |editor=Gordon Smith |publisher=naval-history.net |date=2004 |accessdate=2 May 2015))</ref>

==References==
((reflist))

==Publications==
* [http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-59U-Urchin.htm History of HMS ''Urchin'' at naval-history.net]
* ((Cite Colledge2006))
* ((cite book |title=Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945 |first=Leo |last=Marriott |publisher=Ian Allan |date=1994 |isbn=0-7110-1817-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavydestroy0000marr ))
* ((cite book|last=Raven|first=Alan|author2=Roberts, John |title=War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes|publisher=Bivouac Books|location=London|year=1978|isbn=0-85680-010-4))
* ((cite journal|last1=Richardson|first1=Ian|editor1-last=Osborne|editor1-first=Richard|title=Type 15 Frigates, Part 2: Ship Histories|journal=Warships: Marine News Supplement|date=August 2021|volume=75|issue=8|pages=381–391 |issn=0966-6958))
* ((cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland))

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