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HMS Versatile (D32)
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HMS Versatile (D32) was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.
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![]() HMS Versatile moored to a buoy during World War II sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I32. | |
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Name | HMS Versatile |
Namesake | versatile |
Ordered | 30 June 1916[1] |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside[2] |
Laid down | 31 January 1917[3] |
Launched | 31 October 1917[2] |
Completed | 11 February 1918[2] |
Commissioned | 11 February 1918[1] |
Decommissioned | October 1936[2] |
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Recommissioned | 1939[2] |
Decommissioned | summer 1945[2] |
Motto | Omnibus eadem ("The same in all (winds)")[2] |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping 7 May 1947[5] |
Badge | A gold weather vane on a black field[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty V-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,272–1,339 tons |
Length | 300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 kt |
Range | 320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt |
Complement | 110 |
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Ship's crest of HMS Versatile, depicting a gold weather vane on a black field, photographed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, on 3 June 2012.