Ship Class: HMS W Class

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Ship Class	HMS W Class


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Ship	HMS Kempenfelt HMS Wager HMS Wakeful HMS Welph HMS Wessex HMS Whirlwind HMS Wizard HMS Wrangler
Ship Type	Destroyer
Destroyer Type	Fleet Destroyer
Ship Class Attribute	Longitudinal Framed

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Developed By Country	3) 2: Flag	4) 1: First Laid Down	5) 1: Last Disposed
	Great Britain		1942 May 01	1974 Oct 28

Ship Classes
	Standard Displacement	Length Overall	Beam	Draught	Complement	Class Complement
	1 710ton	110.5m	10.9m	3m	186 ##	1 488

Ship Classes
	Shafts	Main Engines	Max Speed	Machinery Type	Boilers	Boiler Pressure	Boiler Temperature Degree Fahrenheit
	2	40 000hp	36kt	Steam Turbine	2	300psi	620

Ship Classes
	Bunkerage	Range	Cruising	Cruising Endurance
	615ton	4 680mile	20kt	8.473day

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Improve Ship Class	3) 2: as Class Improvement
	HMS U Class	N

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: As Built Armament	3) 2:Turret Model	4) 3:Image	5) 2:Torpedo Model	6) 5:Image	7) 1: Installed With Sensor	8) 7:	9) 7:Image	10) 7: Mount Radar	11) 10:Image
	Gun 4 X BR 4.7in 45cal QF CP Mark XXII 55deg Single	BR 4.7in 45cal QF CP Mark XXII 55deg Single				BR Predictor Fuze Keeping Clock Mk II
	Gun 1 X BR 2pdr Mark VII Quad	BR 2pdr Mark VII Quad				BR Predictor Fire Control Clock Mk I
	Gun 4 X BR 20mm 70cal Mark V VC Power Twin	BR 20mm 70cal Mark V VC Power Twin				BR Director Rangefinder Director Mk III W			BR, Radar, Type 285
	Torpedo 8 X BR 21in Mark IX**			BR 21in Mark IX**		BR, Radar, Type 291
	Anti-submarine 1 Rails 4 Throwers

Ship Classes
	Number In Class	Built By Shipbuilder
	8	Fairfield Shipbuilding And Engineering Ltd Hawthorn Leslie At Hebburn John Brown At Clydebank Vickers Armstrong At Barrow

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Potentially Involved In Tension	3) 1: Operated As Formation	4) 1: Transferred To Country	5) 4:Ship	6) 4: World War 2 Alignment
	1889 1946 Great Britain Germany 1922 1944 Great Britain Italy 1935 1945 Great Britain Japan	RN 27th Destroyer Flotilla	South Africa	HMS Welph \| HMS Wessex \| HMS Wrangler	Allied
		RN 27th Destroyer Flotilla	Yugoslavia	HMS Kempenfelt \| HMS Wager	Axis

Documents
1) Covered By Document	2) 1: as Document Reference	3) 2: Page Number	4) 3: as