Royal Navy — Destroyer
L23
HMS Whitley
Service
- as HMS Whitby14 October 1918 — 19 May 1940261 days of the war
HMS Whitley
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Whitley
- Pennant / hull number
- L23
- Builder
- William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- June 1917
- Launched
- 13 April 1918
- Commissioned
- 14 October 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1921
- Recommissioned
- 1923
- Fate
- Beached 19 May 1940; scuttled (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 Whitley was a destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L23. Her keel was laid at William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland in June 1917. Launched on 13 April 1918, she entered service on 14 October 1918.
Displacement was 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 261 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1921. She recommissioned in 1923.
She was scuttled on 19 May 1940, at 51°09′N 2°40′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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Whitley on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal naval photographer — naval-history.net — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons