Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer D74

HMS Wanderer (D74)

Admiralty modified W class destroyer

HMS Wanderer (D74)
U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 79616 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — D74 The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Wanderer (I74) off the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia (USA), on 5 October 1942. This ship underwent a major conversion to a "long range escort" beginning in January 1943. Wanderer ' pennant number had been changed from "D74" to "I74" in May 1940 to conform to alterations of identities for RN warships.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Wanderer18 September 1919 — 19452,193 days of the war
Admiralty modified W class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Wanderer
Pennant / hull number
D74
Builder
Fairfield's of Glasgow
Ordered
January 1918
Laid down
7 August 1918
Launched
1 May 1919
Commissioned
18 September 1919
Recommissioned
1939
Fate
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 31 January 1946 (1946)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,112 long tons (1,130 t)
Length
91.44 m (300 ft) OA
Beam
9.02 m (29.6 ft)
Draught
3.57 m (11.7 ft)
Speed
32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
Range
3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement
1,919
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Wanderer was a Admiralty modified W class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D74. Her keel was laid at Fairfield's of Glasgow on 7 August 1918. She entered service on 18 September 1919, having been launched on 1 May 1919.

Displacement was 1,112 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,919. 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 recommissioned in 1939.

She was broken up for scrap on 31 January 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
  • As built 1919:
  • 3 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,120 shp, 260 rpm
  • LRE conversion 1943
  • 2 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 18,000 shp
Armament
  • As built 1919:
  • 4 × BL 4.7in (120mm) Mk.I guns on CP VI mounting
  • 2 × QF 2 pounder (40 mm) Mk.II guns
  • 1 × .303 inch Maxim gun
  • 4 × .303 inch Lewis Guns
  • 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (in 2 × triple mountings)
  • 1 × Single Depth charge chute
  • 1943 LRE conversion:
  • 2 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I guns
  • 1 × .303 inch Lewis Gun
  • 4 × Twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon's
  • 1 × Single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
  • 2 × Double Depth charge throwers
  • 2 × Double Depth charge chutes
  • 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (firing 24 × 32 pound spigot mounted bombs)
  • March 1944:
  • + 1 QF 2 pounder gun
  • + 1 single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Wanderer (D74) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 79616 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons