HMS Witherington
Admiralty modified W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Witherington10 October 1919 — September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Witherington
- Pennant / hull number
- D76
- Builder
- James Samuel White & Co Ltd
- Ordered
- April 1918
- Laid down
- 27 September 1918
- Launched
- 16 January 1919
- Commissioned
- 10 October 1919
- Struck
- September 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 20 March 1947
Wrecked 29 April 1947 (1947) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- 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
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 127
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Witherington was a Admiralty modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D76. Her keel was laid at James Samuel White & Co Ltd on 27 September 1918. Launched on 16 January 1919, she entered service on 10 October 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 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 127. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
27,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register in September 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 March 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- White-Foster water-tube boilers
- Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines
- 2 shafts
- Power
- 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
SRE conversion
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
- 1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (one triple mount)
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Witherington on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Ernest Hopkins — https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205320295 This photograph Q 75508 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons