Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Witch
Service
- as HMS WitchMarch 1924 — 15 August 19452,175 days of the war
HMS Witch
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Witch
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire, Hampshire
- Ordered
- January 1918
- Laid down
- 13 June 1918
- Launched
- 11 November 1919
- Commissioned
- March 1924
- Decommissioned
- 15 August 1945
- Recommissioned
- 1939
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 12 July 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Witch was a destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire, Hampshire laid her keel on 13 June 1918. She entered service in March 1924, having been launched on 11 November 1919.
She displaced 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). She carried a complement of 134. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,175 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 August 1945. She recommissioned in 1939.
She was broken up for scrap on 12 July 1946.
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, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Witch on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Tomlin, H W (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//17/media-17730/large.jpg This photograph A 1453 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons