HMS Vansittart (D64)
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| Class and type: | Admiralty modified W class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Vansittart |
| Ordered: | January 1918 |
| Builder: | William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir |
| Laid down: | 1 January 1918 |
| Launched: | 17 April 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 5 November 1919 |
| Identification: | Pennant numbers D64 and I64 |
| Motto: | Grata quies si merita: 'Rest is pleasant if deserved' |
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| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 25 February 1946 |
| Badge: | On a Field Gold, a Demi-eagle Black. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
| Length: | 300 ft o/a, 312 ft p/p |
| Beam: | 30 ft |
| Draught: | 10 ft 11 in |
| Propulsion: | 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
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| Complement: | 134 |
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Type 271 surface warning Radar fitted 1942 |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | Second World War |
| Victories: | U-102 |
HMS Vansittart was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was ordered in January 1918 from William Beardmore & Company with the 13th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1918-19. She was the second Royal Navy ship to carry the name which was first used in 1821 for a hired packet.
HMS Vansittart’s keel was laid on 7 January 1918 at the William Beardmore & Company Shipyard at Dalmuir. She was launched on 17 April 1919. She was 312 feet overall in length with a beam of 29.5 feet. Her mean draught was 9 feet, and would reach 11.25 feet under full load. She had a displacement of 1,140 tons standard and up to 1,550 full load.
She was propelled by three Yarrow water tube boilers powering Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines developing 27,000 SHP driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of 34 knots. She was oil-fired and had a bunkerage of 320 to 370 tons. This gave a range of between 3500 nautical miles at 15 knots and 900 nautical miles at 32 knots.
She shipped four BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I naval guns in four single centre-line turrets. The turrets were disposed as two forward and two aft in super imposed firing positions. She also carried two QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) mounted abeam between funnels. Abaft of the second funnel, she carried six 21-inch torpedo tubes in two triple mounts on the centre-line.
HMS Vansittart was commissioned on 5 November 1919 into the Royal Navy and assigned the pennant number D64. After her acceptance trials she was assigned to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet. In 1925 the 4th Flotilla was transferred to the Mediterranean. In early 1930s she underwent a refit and was placed in reserve as more modern destroyers came into service. This ship was laid-up in Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth with a special complement. She was reactivated manned by Reservists for a Royal Review at Weymouth in August 1939. As war loomed she was brought to war readiness.
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