HMS Wager (R98)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Wager.
HMS Wager was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956, renamed Pula, and scrapped in 1971.
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HMS Wager on completion, 1944 (IWM) | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Wager |
Ordered | December 1941 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Laid down | 20 November 1942 |
Launched | 1 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 14 April 1944 |
Identification | Pennant number: R98 later changed to D298 |
Motto | Spensione provoco - I challenge with a wager |
Honours and awards | Okinawa 1945 |
Fate | Sold to Yugoslavia in October 1956 |
Badge | On a Field White, a cross Blue charged with five bessants within a horseshoe inverted Red. |
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Yugoslavia | |
Name | Pula |
Namesake | City of Pula |
Acquired | October 1956 |
Fate | Decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrapping |
Notes | Pennant number: R22 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | W-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a |
Beam | 35.75 ft (10.90 m) |
Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h) / 32 knots (59 km/h) full |
Range | 4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 225 |
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