HMS Witch (D89)
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 United Kingdom
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| Class and type: | Modified W-class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Witch |
| Ordered: | January 1918 |
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| Laid down: | 13 June 1918 |
| Launched: | 11 November 1919 |
| Completed: | March 1924 |
| Commissioned: | March 1924 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920s |
| Recommissioned: | 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | soon after 15 August 1945 |
| Motto: | I'll do and I'll do |
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| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 12 July 1946 |
| Badge: | A black cat affronte cantant before a silver crescent moon on a blue field |
| 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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| Notes: | Pennant number D89 |
HMS Witch (D89) was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II.
Witch, 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 13 June 1918 by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston, Hampshire. The pace of her construction slowed greatly after the Armistice with Germany brought World War I to an end on 11 November 1918, and she was not launched until 11 November 1919. She then was towed to Devonport Dockyard at Devonport, Devon, where her fitting-out took place slowly, and she was not completed until March 1924.
Upon completion, Witch was commissioned in March 1924. She saw little service and soon was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Rosyth, Scotland.
In 1939, Witch was recommissioned for the Royal Review of the Reserve Fleet by King George VI.
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