HMS Wild Swan (D62)
Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Wild Swan14 November 1919 — in service2,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Wild Swan
- Pennant / hull number
- D62
- Builder
- Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
- Ordered
- January 1918
- Laid down
- July 1918
- Launched
- 17 May 1919
- Commissioned
- 14 November 1919
- Fate
- Sunk after air attack
17 June 1942
By aircraft - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.99 m (29.5 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 127
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Wild Swan was a Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D62. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne in July 1918. Launched on 17 May 1919, she entered service on 14 November 1919.
She displaced 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 127. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk by aircraft, at 49°52′N 10°44′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
- Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp
- Armament
- As built 1920
- 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes
- War Modifications cumulative
- 3 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 1 × QF 12 pounder AA gun
- 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Wild Swan (D62) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Wallingwells1802 — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons