HMS Wishart (D67)
HMS Wishart in drydock sometime prior to World War II.
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| Class and type: | Modified W-class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Wishart |
| Namesake: | James Wishart (1659–1723), British admiral who was commanding officer of HMS Swiftsure at the Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702 |
| Ordered: | January 1918 |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire, Hampshire, England |
| Laid down: | 18 May 1918 |
| Launched: | 18 July 1919 |
| Completed: | June 1920 |
| Commissioned: | June 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | February 1945 |
| Motto: | Clementia victis ("Mercy to the vanquished") |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 20 March 1945 |
| Badge: | A red pheon on a silver field |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
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| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 11 in (3.33 m) |
| 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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| Notes: | Pennant number D67 |
HMS Wishart (D67) was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She spent most of her wartime career based at Gibraltar, engaged in convoy defence, but also served in various naval and military operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Wishart, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in January 1918 as part of the 13th Order of the 1918–1919 Naval Programme, and was laid down on 18 May 1918 by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston, Hampshire. The pace of her construction slowed after the Armistice with Germany brought World War I to an end on 11 November 1918, but she was launched on 18 July 1919 and completed in June 1920.
Upon completion, Wishart was commissioned in June 1920. During the interwar period she served first in the Atlantic Fleet and then in the Mediterranean Fleet, and while in the latter had Lord Louis Mountbatten as her commanding officer for a time.
Wishart was in waters off China when the United States Navy gunboat USS Fulton (PG-49) was heavily damaged by fire while at sea on 14 March 1934. Wishart and the merchant ship SS Tsinan took off Fulton's crew, three of whom had suffered minor injuries, and took them to the Royal Navy Dockyard at Hong Kong, and Wishart's sister ship HMS Whitshed stood by Fulton until a salvage party could put the fire out. The United States Department of the Navy later passed thanks to British naval authorities for the assistance Wishart and Whitshed provided to Fulton and her crew.
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