Royal Navy — Destroyer
L40
HMS Westminster (L40)
W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Westminster18 April 1918 — August 19482,193 days of the war
W-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Westminster
- Pennant / hull number
- L40
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- April 1917
- Launched
- 24 February 1918
- Commissioned
- 18 April 1918
- Decommissioned
- August 1948
- Fate
- Sold on 4 March 1947 for breaking up (1947)
- Status
- Unknown
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 Westminster was a W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L40. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock laid her keel in April 1917. She entered service on 18 April 1918, having been launched on 24 February 1918.
She displaced 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 four 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in August 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Three Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
- Brown-Curtis steam turbines
- Two shafts
- 27000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 4 × 4 in low-angled guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Westminster (L40) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 1955 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons