Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer D64

HMS Vansittart

Admiralty modified W-class destroyer

HMS Vansittart
Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 20891 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — D64 British destroyer HMS VANSITTART at a buoy.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Vansittart5 November 1919 — 25 February 19462,193 days of the war
Admiralty modified W-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Vansittart
Pennant / hull number
D64
Builder
William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir
Ordered
January 1918
Laid down
1 January 1918
Launched
17 April 1919
Commissioned
5 November 1919
Fate
Sold for scrap on 25 February 1946 (1946)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length
91.44 m (300 ft) OA
Beam
9.14 m (30 ft)
Draught
3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed
34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
Range
3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement
134
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Vansittart was a Admiralty modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D64. Her keel was laid at William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir on 1 January 1918. Launched on 17 April 1919, she entered service on 5 November 1919.

She displaced 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 134. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 25 February 1946.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Armament
  • As built 1920:
  • 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns mount P Mk.I
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
  • 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes
  • 1943 LRE conversion:
  • 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
  • 1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
  • 2 × 20mm Oerlikon cannons
  • 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (one triple mount)
  • 2 × depth charge racks
  • Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Vansittart on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 20891 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons