Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Wryneck
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Wryneck? — 27 April 1941604 days of the war
Admiralty W-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Wryneck
- Namesake
- Wryneck
- Builder
- Palmers, Jarrow
- Ordered
- 16 December 1916
- Laid down
- April 1917
- Launched
- 13 May 1918
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft in the Aegean north of Crete, 27 April 1941
By aircraft (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Length
- 95.1 m (312 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 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 Wryneck was a Admiralty W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Wryneck. Her keel was laid at Palmers, Jarrow in April 1917. She was launched on 13 May 1918.
Displacement was 1,100 long tons. She measured 95.1 m (312 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 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 604 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 27 April 1941 by aircraft. 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
- 3 × Yarrow-type water tube boilers
- Parsons steam turbines
- 27000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- As built
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45) guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) anti-aircraft guns or 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun
- 6 (2×3) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes
- From April 1940
- 4 × QF 4 inch L/45 Mark XVI guns in two twin mounts HA/LA Mark XIX
- 2 × quadruple Mark III Vickers .50 machine guns
- 2 × racks and throwers for depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Wryneck on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Milne, Robert Nicol — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons