HMS Rockwood was a Type III, Hunt class Escort destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Barrow-in-Furness and served during the Second World War.

[2] The Hunt class was meant to fill the Royal Navy's need for a large number of small destroyer-type vessels capable of both convoy escort and operations with the fleet.

Rockwood was one of 27, Type III's and this third batch forfeited 'Y' gun turret for a pair of 21-inch torpedo tubes amidships, to increase their anti-shipping punch and the main searchlight was moved to the aft shelter deck.

Rockwood completed acceptance trials, calibrations and worked-up with her crew during November 1942, then embarked on escort duty from Clyde to Durban, with Convoy WS 25.

During firefighting and basic repairs, it was discovered that the bomb had torn through thawing beef rations, creating a scene which the damage-control party initially mistook for a massacre:[7] Rockwood was eventually towed to Alexandria[8] by her sister ship HMS Blencathra where she was declared a constructive loss, paid off in May 1944 and placed in reserve.