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HMS Whelp was one of eight W-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War .. W-class destroyers. W and Z-class destroyer. Royal Navy. Royal Navy. Second World War. World War II. Completed in 1944 , the ship spent most of the war assigned to the Eastern and Pacific Fleets .. Eastern. Eastern Fleet. Pacific Fleets. British Pacific Fleet. She screened British aircraft carriers as their aircraft attacked targets in the Japanese-occupied Nicobar Islands , the Dutch East Indies , Formosa and near Okinawa .. Nicobar Islands. Nicobar Islands. Dutch East Indies. Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Formosa. Formosa. Okinawa. Okinawa. Whelp was present at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945 and later in Hong Kong .. Japanese surrender. Japanese surrender. Tokyo Bay. Tokyo Bay. Hong Kong. Hong Kong. She was paid off in January 1946 and went into reserve .. paid off. paid off. reserve. Reserve fleet. Whelp was sold to the South African Navy -LRB- SAN -RRB- in 1952 and renamed Simon van der Stel .. South African Navy. South African Navy. Simon van der Stel. Simon van der Stel. She was subsequently converted into a fast anti-submarine frigate in the early 1960s and served as a training ship from 1968 until 1972 when she went back into reserve .. reserve. Reserve fleet. anti-submarine. anti-submarine warfare. frigate. frigate. training ship. training ship. Simon van der Stel was recommissioned in 1975 for a refit , but that proved to be uneconomical and she was scrapped the following year .. Simon van der Stel. Simon van der Stel. recommissioned. Ship commissioning. scrapped. ship breaking