HMS Windsor (D42)
HMS Windsor underway in coastal waters during World War II.
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| Class and type: | Admiralty W-class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Windsor |
| Ordered: | 9 December 1916 |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland |
| Laid down: | April 1917 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1918 |
| Completed: | 28 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 28 August 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | summer 1945 |
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| Motto: | Stat fortuna domus ("May the fortune of the House stand") |
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| Fate: | Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping |
| Badge: | A silver castle surmounted by the Royal Crown Proiper on a red field |
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| Displacement: | 1,100 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m)p/p |
| Beam: | 26.75 ft (8.15 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11.25 ft (3.43 m) in deep |
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| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range: | 320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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The third HMS Windsor (D42) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.
Windsor was ordered on 9 December 1916, and was laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock, Scotland, in April 1917. Launched on 21 June 1918, she was completed on 28 August 1918 and commissioned the same day. She was assigned the pennant number F12 in September 1918; it was changed to D42 during the interwar period.
Upon completion, Windsor was assigned to the Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, in which she served for the rest of World War I. She was present at the surrender of the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet in November 1918.
Windsor was assigned to the 6th Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet in 1921. In 1928 she was part of the Portsmouth Local Flotilla.
On the day the United Kingdom entered World War II, 3 September 1939, Windsor was assigned to the 18th Destroyer Flotilla at Portland, England, for convoy escort and patrol duty in the English Channel and Southwestern Approaches. In October 1939 she transferred to Western Approaches Command but continued her assignment in the Southwestern Approaches. By January 1940, she was based at Plymouth for these duties. On 11 March 1940, she and the destroyer HMS Winchelsea (D46) relieved two French warships as the escort of Convoy HG 21, as it arrived in the Southwestern Approaches from Gibraltar, and escorted the convoy until the conclusion of its voyage at Liverpool on 13 March 1940.
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