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HMS Vansittart (D64)
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HMS Vansittart was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was ordered in January 1918 from William Beardmore & Company with the 13th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1918–19. She was the second Royal Navy ship to carry the name which was first used in 1821 for a hired packet.[1]
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Name | HMS Vansittart |
Ordered | January 1918 |
Builder | William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir |
Laid down | 1 January 1918 |
Launched | 17 April 1919 |
Commissioned | 5 November 1919 |
Identification | Pennant numbers D64 and I64 |
Motto | Grata quies si merita: 'Rest is pleasant if deserved' |
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Fate | Sold for scrap on 25 February 1946 |
Badge | On a Field Gold, a Demi-eagle Black. |
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Class and type | Admiralty modified W-class destroyer |
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 |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 271 surface warning Radar fitted 1942 |
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Service record | |
Operations: | Second World War |
Victories: | U-102 |
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