HMS Wild Swan (D62)

Wild Swan in the Mediterranean in 1925
History
Name:	HMS Wild Swan
Ordered:	January 1918
Builder:	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
Laid down:	July 1918
Launched:	17 May 1919
Commissioned:	14 November 1919
Honours and awards:	Dunkirk 1940 Atlantic 1940–42
Fate:	Sunk after air attack 17 June 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full
Length:	300 feet (91 m) o/a, 312 feet (95 m) p/p
Beam:	29.5 feet (9.0 m)
Draught:	9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.43 m) under full load
Propulsion:	Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nautical miles (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement:	127
Electronic warfare & decoys:	ASDIC fitted 1939 Type 286M Air Warning RADAR fitted 1941
Armament:	As built 1920 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 War Modifications cumulative 3 × 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) 1 × QF 12 pounder AA gun 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes

HMS Wild Swan was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in 1918 from Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1917-18. She was the second Royal Navy ship to carry the name, after the sloop HMS Wild Swan in 1876. Like her sisters, she was completed too late to see action in the First World War.

Wild Swan was one of seven Modified W-Class destroyers that were completed after World War I, out of an original order for 38 ships issued in April 1918. She was built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on Tyne, being laid down in July 1918, launched on 17 May 1919 and completed on 14 November 1919.

Wild Swan was 312 feet (95.1 m) long overall and 300 feet (91.4 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 29 feet 6 inches (8.99 m) and a draught of between 10 feet 9 inches (3.28 m) and 11 feet 7 ¹⁄₂ inches (3.54 m) depending on load. Displacement was 1,112 long tons (1,130 t) standard and 1,505 long tons (1,529 t) deep load. Three oil-fed Yarrow boilers raising steam at 250 pounds per square inch (1,700 kPa) fed Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines which developed 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,000 kW), driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph). The ship carried 387 long tons (393 t) of oil giving a range of 3,210 nautical miles (5,940 km; 3,690 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).