HMS Walker
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Walker12 February 1918 — 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Walker
- Pennant / hull number
- G22
- Builder
- William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- 26 March 1917
- Launched
- 29 November 1917
- Commissioned
- 12 February 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1932
- Recommissioned
- August 1939
- Fate
- Sold 15 March 1946 for scrapping (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Walker was a Admiralty W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G22. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton laid her keel on 26 March 1917. Launched on 29 November 1917, she entered service on 12 February 1918.
She displaced 1,100 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 110. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1932. She recommissioned in August 1939.
She was broken up for scrap on 15 March 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
- 27000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2-pounder Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or
- 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
- 6 (2x3) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Walker on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Tomlin, H W (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//17/media-17769/large.jpg This photograph A 4593 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons