HMS Wishart
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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.
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HMS Wishart in drydock sometime prior to World War II. | |
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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[1] |
Ordered | January 1918[1] |
Builder | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire, Hampshire[1] |
Laid down | 18 May 1918[1] |
Launched | 18 July 1919[1] |
Completed | June 1920[1] |
Commissioned | June 1920[2] |
Decommissioned | February 1945[1] |
Motto | Clementia victis ("Mercy to the vanquished")[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 20 March 1945[1] |
Badge | A red pheon on a silver field[1] |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
Length | |
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 |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 271 surface warning radar fitted 1942 |
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Notes | Pennant number D67 |
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