HMS Whitehall
Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Whitehall9 July 1924 — May 19452,096 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Whitehall
- Namesake
- Whitehall
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered
- January 1918
- Laid down
- June 1918
- Launched
- 11 September 1919
- Commissioned
- 9 July 1924
- Decommissioned
- May 1945
- Recommissioned
- August 1939
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping October 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 127
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Whitehall was a Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Whitehall. Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Chatham Dockyard laid her keel in June 1918. Launched on 11 September 1919, she entered service on 9 July 1924.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 127. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,096 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1945. She recommissioned in August 1939.
She was broken up for scrap in October 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared 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
- 1940 SRE conversion:
- 3 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
- 1 × 3 in AA gun
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (one triple mount)
- 2 × depth charge racks
- twin 6-pounder (57-mm) gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Whitehall on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — Imperial War Museum MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOXHILL COLLECTION OF SHIP PHOTOGRAPHS Catalogue number FL 10658 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons