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Whitshed

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Whitehead			Swan Hunter, Wallsend	1918	6.1918	---	cancelled 4.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Wye			Yarrow, Scotstoun	1918	11.1918	---	cancelled 9.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Venomous (ex-Venom)	G98, D75		John Brown, Clydebank	5.1918	21.12.1918	6.1919	BU 3.1947	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Verity	F36, D63		John Brown, Clydebank	5.1918	19.3.1919	9.1919	BU 3.1947	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Volunteer	D71		Denny, Dumbarton	4.1918	17.4.1919	11.1919	BU 3.1947	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Vansittart	D64		Beardmore, Dalmuir	7.1918	17.4.1919	11.1919	BU 2.1946	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Wanderer	D74		Fairfield, Govan	8.1918	1.5.1919	9.1919	BU 1.1946	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Whitehall	D94		Swan Hunter, Wallsend / Chatham DYd	6.1918	11.9.1919	7.1924	BU 10.1945	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Wren	D88, D98		Yarrow, Scotstoun / Pembroke DYd	6.1918	11.11.1919	1.1923	sunk 27.7.1940	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Vimy (ex-Vantage)			Beardmore, Dalmuir	1918	---	---	cancelled 9.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Votary			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 12.1918	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Warren			Fairfield, Govan	1918	---	---	cancelled 9.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Welcome			Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Welfare			Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	1st order (1/1918), Admiralty design
Wishart	D67		Thornycroft, Woolston	5/1918	18.7.1919	6/1920	BU 3.1945	Thornycroft specials
Witch	GA6, D89		Thornycroft, Woolston / Devonport DYd	6/1918	11.11.1919	3/1924	BU 7.1946	Thornycroft specials
Witherington	D76		White, Cowes	9.1918	16.1.1919	10.1919	BU 3.1947	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Whitshed	FA7, D77		Swan Hunter, Wallsend	6.1918	31.1.1919	7.1919	BU 2.1947	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wivern	D66		White, Cowes	8.1918	16.4.1919	12.1919	BU 2.1947	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Veteran	D72		John Brown, Clydebank	8.1918	26.4.1919	11.1919	sunk 26.9.1942	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wild Swan	D62		Swan Hunter, Wallsend	7.1918	17.5.1919	11.1919	sunk 17.6.1942	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wolverine	D78		White, Cowes	10.1918	17.7.1919	7.1920	BU 1.1946	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Werewolf			White, Cowes (ex-Swan Hunter, Wallsend)	1918	17.7.1919	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Worcester, 1945- Yeoman	D96		White, Cowes / Portsmouth DYd	12.1918	24.10.1919	9.1922	damaged 23.12.1943, never repaired, BU 9.1946	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Watson			Fairfield, Govan / Devonport DYd	1918	1919	---	cancelled 9.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Vashon			Beardmore, Dalmuir	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Vengeful			Beardmore, Dalmuir	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Vigo			John Brown, Clydebank	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Virulent			John Brown, Clydebank	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Volage			John Brown, Clydebank	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Volcano			John Brown, Clydebank	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wistful (ex-Vigorous)			John Brown, Clydebank	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wager			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wake			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Waldegrave			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Walton			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Whitaker			Denny, Dumbarton	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wave			Fairfield, Govan	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Weazel			Fairfield, Govan	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
White Bear			Fairfield, Govan	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wellesley			Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wheeler			Scotts, Greenock	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Whip			Scotts, Greenock	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Whippet			Scotts, Greenock	1918	---	---	cancelled 11.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Whelp			Scotts, Greenock	1918	---	---	cancelled 9.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Willoughby			Swan Hunter, Wallsend	1918	---	---	cancelled 12.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Winter			Swan Hunter, Wallsend	1918	---	---	cancelled 12.1918	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Westphal			White, Cowes (ex-Swan Hunter, Wallsend)	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Westward Ho			White, Cowes (ex-Swan Hunter, Wallsend)	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Wrangler			Yarrow, Scotstoun (ex-White, Cowes)	1918	---	---	cancelled 9.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Yeoman			Yarrow, Scotstoun	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Zealous			Yarrow, Scotstoun	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Zebra			Yarrow, Scotstoun	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design
Zodiac			Yarrow, Scotstoun	1918	---	---	cancelled 4.1919	2nd order (4/1918), Admiralty design

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1325
Displacement full, t	Admiralty design: 1508 Thornycroft specials: 1530
Length, m	95.1
Breadth, m	Admiralty design: 9.00 Thornycroft specials: 9.37
Draught, m	Admiralty design: 3.20 Thornycroft specials: 2.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers Whitehall, Whitehead, Whitshed, Wild Swan, Willoughby, Winter: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers Wivern, Witherington, Wolverine, Worcester, Werewolf, Westphal, Westward Ho: 2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 White-Forster boilers
Power, h. p.	Admiralty design: 27000 Thornycroft specials: 30000
Max speed, kts	Admiralty design: 34 Thornycroft specials: 35
Fuel, t	Admiralty design: oil 367 Thornycroft specials: oil 374
Endurance, nm(kts)	3210(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/45 BL Mk I, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk II or 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (15 - 20 DC)
Complement	127

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Project history

A Repeat 'W' class of 16 boats was ordered in January 1918, followed by 38 more in March-April, but only 9 of the first order and 7 of the second survived the wholesale cancellations which followed the Armistice. As before Thornycroft were permitted to build two to their own design, with added freeboard and more powerful machinery. The dimensions of the 'V&W' classes were followed but with a slightly different stern.

Because of the big sizes of new guns it was necessary to raise a little the bridge for review improvement that has led to weighting of a fore end and some deterioration of seaworthiness. This lack of the new ships was obvious at a designing phase, therefore at the initiative of Thornycroft which had an order on 2 ships, design received serious changes. For the expense of re-planning of boiler rooms on Wishart and Witch the second funnel managed to be removed aft, having exempted place for the bridge which was now distant from a stem notably further, than at Admiralty designed destroyers, that notably lightened a fore end. Only Thornycroft-built ships of 1st series were built in a similar way, and remaining not to delay limits for the readiness, have decided to build on invariable design. Therefore outwardly these destroyers practically did not differ from the predecessors of "V/W" classes. Ideas of Thornycroft were completely embodied in the design of ships of the next order (April, 1918). Outwardly they differed from 1st series by the bridge displaced in a stern and funnels, first of which was thicker, than second (on all earlier ships it was contrary).

The two sets of triple TT were repeated but the 120mm BL gun of the Shakespeare and Scott classes replaced the 102mm Mk.V, marking a major increase in gunpower. All were completed after the Armistice, most between April 1919 and July 1920, but Whitehall was towed to Chatham DYd and not completed until July 1924, Wren was completed at Pembroke DYd in January 1923 and Worcester was completed at Portsmouth in September 1922. The order for Watson was transferred to Devonport DYd and she is reported to have been launched in 1919 to clear the slip. Similarly Werewolf, Westphal and Westward Ho were transferred from J S While to Swan Hunter and Wrangler was transferred from J S White to Yarrow. As part of the November 1918 cancellation material for Whelp was transferred to Pembroke DYd, material for Watson to Devonport DYd, material for Warren to Chatham DYd and Vigo's boilers were transferred to Whelp.

Modernizations

1924, all: AA armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

1930s, all: + type 124 or type 127 sonar

spring - summer 1940, all: - 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V

1941 - 1942, all but Wren and Worcester: - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("Y"); + 2 DCT, 1 DCR ( DCs stowage was 70 - 98 pcs)

1941 - 1942, most: + type 271, type 286 radars

(1 - 8.1942), Venomous, (5 - 8.1942), Whitehall; (1 - 5.1943), Wanderer; (4 - 10.1943), Verity: 1 boiler was removed, fuel stowage rose up to 450t, engine power decreased to 15 000hp, maximal speed was 24.5kts, full displacement was 1730-1760t; - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("A"), 1 x 1 - 76/40, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, type 124 or type 127 sonar; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

late 1942, Vansittart, Volunteer, Wishart, Witch, Whitshed, Witherington, Wivern, Wolverine, Worcester: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

(8/1942 - 1.1943), Volunteer; (1 - 6.1943), Vansittart: 1 boiler was removed, fuel stowage rose up to 450t, engine power decreased to 15 000hp, maximal speed was 24.5kts, full displacement was 1730-1760t; - 1 x 3 - 533 TT

1943 - 1944, Volunteer, Veteran, Wolverine: - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("A"), type 124 or type 127 sonar; + 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1943 - 1944, Vansittart, Volunteer, Wanderer, Venomous, Verity, Whitehall, Wishart, Witch: - 2 x 1 - 40/39; + (2 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1943 - 1944, most: - type 286 radar; + type 291 radar

1944, Witherington: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 1 - 76/40, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (DCs stowage was 20 pcs); + 1 x 2 - 57/47 6pdr 10cwt QF Mk I, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII

1944, Whitshed, Wivern: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (DCs stowage was 20 pcs); + 1 x 2 - 57/47 6pdr 10cwt QF Mk I, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII

late 1944, Witherington, Whitshed, Wivern: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk.II/IV

1/1946, Venomous: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Verity: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, 291 radars, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Volunteer: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Vansittart: 3 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 124 or type 127 sonar

1/1946, Wanderer: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Witch: 3 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 124 or type 127 sonar

1/1946, Witherington: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 2 - 57/47 Mk I, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20), type 271, type 291 radars, type 124 or type 127 sonar

1/1946, Whitshed: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 1 x 2 - 57/47 Mk I, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20), type 271, type 291 radars, type 124 or type 127 sonar

1/1946, Wivern: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 1 x 2 - 57/47 Mk I, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20), type 271, type 291 radars, type 124 or type 127 sonar

1/1946, Wolverine: 2 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 2 x 1 - 40/39 HA Mk II, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

Naval service

Wren 27.7.1940 was sunk by German He 111 bombers off British coast. Wild Swan 17.6.1942 was badly damaged by German Ju 88 bombers, soon collided with Spanish trawler in 100nm S of Ireland and sunk. Veteran 26.9.1942 was sunk by German submarine U404 off Sothern coast of Iceland. Worcester was mined in the North Sea 23.12.1943, badly damaged, not repaired and used as hulk; renamed Yeoman in 1945.