HMS Warrior (1917)

Warrior in 1910
History
Name	1904: Warrior 1914: Wayfarer 1915: Warrior 1920: Goizeko-Izarra 1937: Warrior 1939: Warrior II
Namesake	1920: Basque for "Morning Star"
Owner	1904: Frederick W Vanderbilt 1914: HP Whitney (possibly) 1914: Alfred G Vanderbilt 1916: Alexander Smith Cochran 1920: Ramon de la Sota y Llano 1936: Executors of R de la Sota 1937: Rex Morley Hoyes 1940: Marwell Shipping Co
Operator	1914: Harry Payne Whitney 1917: Royal Navy 1939: Royal Navy
Port of registry	1904: New York 1920: Bilbao 1937: Southampton
Builder	Ailsa Shipbuilding Co, Troon
Cost	about $400,000 to $500,000
Yard number	121
Launched	4 February 1904
Identification	by 1909: code letters KVHJ 1913: call sign KYW 1915: call sign WEZ 1917: pennant number 090 1937: UK official number 115052 1937: call sign GZZZ
Fate	sunk by air attack, 1940
General characteristics
Type	steam yacht
Tonnage	1905: 1,098 GRT, 396 NRT 1938: 1,124 GRT, 530 NRT
Length	255.3 ft (77.8 m) overall 238.3 ft (72.6 m) p/p
Beam	32.7 ft (10.0 m)
Draught	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Depth	18.1 ft (5.5 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	314 NHP or 2,700 ihp
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	15.7 knots (29 km/h) (sea trial)
Crew	1904: 40 or 45 1914: 48
Sensors and processing systems	by 1911: submarine signalling
Armament	1917: 2 × 12-pounder guns

HMS Warrior was a steel-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1904. Her first owner was Frederick William Vanderbilt. One of his cousins, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, owned her for a few months before he was killed in the sinking of RMS Lusitania. She passed through several owners. She was renamed Wayfarer in 1914, Warrior again in 1915, Goizeko-Izarra in 1920, Warrior again in 1937, and Warrior II in 1939. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in both world wars, and evacuated Republican child refugees in the Spanish Civil War.

In February 1917, Warrior was commissioned as an armed yacht. She patrolled from Bermuda to the Caribbean until January 1918. In March 1918 she became the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station. From April 1918 to January 1919 she was moored in Washington, D.C., where she hosted social events to support UK – US diplomatic and naval relations.

In the Second World War the yacht was converted for anti-submarine warfare, and recommissioned as HMS Warrior II. A German air attack sank her in the English Channel in July 1940. Her remains attract recreational wreck divers.