Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Westcott
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Westcott12 April 1918 — 26 June 19452,125 days of the war
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Westcott
- Builder
- Denny
- Ordered
- December 1916
- Laid down
- 30 March 1917
- Launched
- 14 February 1918
- Commissioned
- 12 April 1918
- Decommissioned
- 26 June 1945
- Fate
- Sold to BISCO and scrapped, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Length
- 95.1 m (312 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 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 Westcott was a Admiralty W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Denny on 30 March 1917. She entered service on 12 April 1918, having been launched on 14 February 1918.
Displacement was 1,100 long tons. 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 110. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,125 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 June 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 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 (40 mm) MkII "pom-pom" AA guns or
- 1 × QF 3 inch AA gun HA Mk.II
- 6 (2x3) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Westcott on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22820 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons