HMS Wolsey
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Wolsey14 May 1918 — 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Wolsey
- Pennant / hull number
- G40
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire
- Ordered
- 9 December 1916
- Laid down
- 28 March 1917
- Launched
- 16 March 1918
- Commissioned
- 14 May 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Recommissioned
- January 1940
- Fate
- Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,120 long tons (1,138 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Wolsey was a Admiralty W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G40. John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire laid her keel on 28 March 1917. She entered service on 14 May 1918, having been launched on 16 March 1918.
Displacement was 1,120 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 134. 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 recommissioned in January 1940.
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, 30,000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
- 1 × QF 3-inch 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
- 6 (3x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Wolsey on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10462 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums . Imperial War Museum MINISTRY OF DEFENCE FOXHILL COLLECTION OF SHIP PHOTOGRAPHS Catalogue No. FL 10462 via "view original image" at http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib/19/media-19257/mid.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons