HMS Wolverine (D78)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Wolverine.
HMS Wolverine was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in April 1918 from James Samuel White & Co Ltd under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Programme of 1917–18. She was the seventh Royal Navy Ship to carry the name. It had been introduced in 1798 for a gun brig and last borne by a destroyer sunk after a collision in 1917.[1]
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HMS Wolverine in 1944 | |
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Name | HMS Wolverine |
Ordered | April 1918 |
Builder | James Samuel White & Co Ltd |
Laid down | 8 October 1918 |
Launched | 17 July 1919 |
Commissioned | 27 February 1920 |
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Stricken | sold for scrap 28 January 1946 |
Identification | Pennant numbers D78 and I78 |
Motto | Avidus laboris gloriae – "Greedy of work, greedy of labour" |
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Fate | Scrapped 1946 |
Badge | On a Field White, on a mount Green, a Wolverine proper. |
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Class and type | Admiralty modified W-class destroyer |
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Length | 300 feet (91 m) o/a, 312 feet (95 m) p/p |
Beam | 29.5 feet (9.0 m) |
Draught | 9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.43 m) under full load |
Propulsion | Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
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Complement | 127 |
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Operations: | World War II |
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