Royal Navy — Destroyer
D42
HMS Windsor (D42)
Service
- as HMS Windsor28 August 1918 — 19452,193 days of the war
HMS Windsor (D42)
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Windsor
- Pennant / hull number
- D42
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- April 1917
- Launched
- 21 June 1918
- Commissioned
- 28 August 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Fate
- Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Windsor was a destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D42. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock laid her keel in April 1917. She entered service on 28 August 1918, having been launched on 21 June 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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947.
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 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
- twin QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Windsor (D42) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19370/large.jpg This photograph FL 12491 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons