HMAS Voyager (D31)
W-class destroyer
Service
- as Voyager24 June 1918 — 11 October 1933
- as Voyager11 October 1933 — 23 September 19421,118 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Voyager
- Pennant / hull number
- D31
- Builder
- Alexander Stephens and Sons
- Laid down
- 17 May 1917
- Launched
- 8 May 1918
- Commissioned
- 24 June 1918
- Decommissioned
- 11 October 1933
- Recommissioned
- 26 April 1938
- Fate
- Ran aground 23 September 1942, scuttled (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,470 long tons (1,494 t)
- Length
- 95.1 m (312 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,600 nmi (4,815 km)
- Complement
- 119
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
HMAS Voyager was a W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D31. Alexander Stephens and Sons laid her keel on 17 May 1917. She entered service on 24 June 1918, having been launched on 8 May 1918.
Displacement was 1,100 long tons standard and 1,470 long tons at full load. She measured 95.1 m (312 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 119. Her main battery was of 20 mm (0.8 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy as Voyager until 11 October 1933. She then passed to the Royal Australian Navy, serving as Voyager from 11 October 1933. She was in commission for 1,118 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 11 October 1933. She recommissioned on 26 April 1938.
She was scuttled on 23 September 1942, at 9°15′S 125°45′E. The wreck survives.
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 boilers, 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 27000 shp, two shafts
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4-inch Mk V guns
- 1 × QF 2-pounder naval gun (later increased to 2)
- 5 × .303 inch machine guns
- 2 × 3-tube 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo sets (1 later removed)
- 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- Depth charge chutes and throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Voyager (D31) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Green, Allan C., 1878-1954, photographer. — https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/156d4cp/alma9916490343607636 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons