Royal Navy — Destroyer
D30
HMS Whirlwind (D30)
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Whirlwind? — 5 July 1940308 days of the war
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Whirlwind
- Pennant / hull number
- D30
- Builder
- Swan Hunter
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Launched
- 15 December 1917
- Fate
- Sunk, 5 July 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 Whirlwind was a Admiralty W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D30. She was built by Swan Hunter. She was launched on 15 December 1917.
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 308 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 5 July 1940, at 50°17′N 8°48′W. 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 Whirlwind (D30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Losse Fotografische Objecten — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/518a966b-6110-9743-6a1c-45e46b645498/media/78e78445-5495-593a-157a-dcecb522cbf9 — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons