HMS Wessex (D43)
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Wessex11 May 1918 — 24 May 1940266 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Wessex
- Pennant / hull number
- D43
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- 25 May 1917
- Launched
- 12 March 1918
- Commissioned
- 11 May 1918
- Fate
- Sunk 24 May 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
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 Wessex was a Admiralty W-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D43. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside on 25 May 1917. She entered service on 11 May 1918, having been launched on 12 March 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 266 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 24 May 1940, at 51°01′N 1°46′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 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 Wessex (D43) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums — https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/15783882461/ — No restrictions — Wikimedia Commons