My novels Burning Wolfhound and Codename Wolfhound feature a patrol boat called the Wolfhound. It was partly inspired by the ship HMS Vale that used to sit in the center of Norwich, UK. It was a sea scouts HQ then and called the TS Lord Nelson. The Vale had 15 sister ships in the Hugin Class. Some are still active. There was in fact a ship called the HMS Wolfhound but it was scrapped in 1948 and a much larger, and older, destroyer.
HMS Vale was a Swedish ship built in Norway. I have the Wolfhound as a 60ft keel, Vale is 120ft. Both with two engines. Vale has a max speed of 30 knots but I have the Wolfhound ripping along at warp speed in comparison! Thing’s are quicker in novels/films!
Vale at Wikipedia. It is a Hugin Class patrol boat. Vale is now a cafe in England: Deben Cafe Facebook: HMS Vale
Burning Wolfhound is set in 1968 which makes the Wolfhound much older than the Vale. The story goes that the lead character Bernhart Smith bought the ship from the coastguard when it was decommissioned. The active life would be 20/40 years, you’d assume the ship was used before the coastguard as a patrol boat. Vale was commissioned in 1978 and decommissioned 1995. A short active life of 17 years. Still, that puts the Wolfhound at minimum 1953. Likely ships had a longer active life then, so it could be plunked into WW2 or before.
The novels are becoming the Wolfhound series
In Nov 2024 I visited the ship. The owner said they had a problem with adding the number to the side “P155” as, from across the water, it looked like it said “PISS”. Oh dear. Maybe that would help with the Wolfhound burning?