HMS Watchman
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Watchman26 January 1918 — May 19452,096 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Watchman
- Pennant / hull number
- G23
- Namesake
- watchman
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- 17 January 1917
- Launched
- 2 December 1917
- Commissioned
- 26 January 1918
- Decommissioned
- May 1945
- Recommissioned
- 1939
- Fate
- Sold 23 July 1945 for scrapping (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.15 m (26.7 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 Watchman was a Admiralty W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G23. She was named for watchman. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 17 January 1917. Launched on 2 December 1917, she entered service on 26 January 1918.
She displaced 1,100 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 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 2,096 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1945. She recommissioned in 1939.
She was broken up for scrap on 23 July 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
- 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
- Brown-Curtis steam turbines
- 2 shafts
- 27000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr 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 Watchman on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Devonport Dockyard Constructive Department (Royal Navy dockyard) — This photograph FL 10518 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons