The first HMS Walrus (D24) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I. Walrus was ordered in December 1916[1] and was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland,[1] in February 1917.

All of the V- and W-class destroyers, Walrus among them, were assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich Force for the rest of World War I,[1] which ended with the armistice with Germany on 11 November 1918.

[6] She entered dockyard hands at Sheerness[7] in England on 15 November 1926 for a refit, and recommissioned on 5 April 1927 to resume duty with the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.

[3][10] The Royal Navy decided to convert Walrus into an antiaircraft escort, and in February 1938 a tug took her under tow from Rosyth with a skeleton crew of four men aboard bound for Chatham Dockyard, where she was to undergo the conversion.

[3][11] Deemed beyond economical repair, Walrus was sold to Round Brothers of Sunderland, England, on 5 March 1938 for scrapping.