HMS Wild Swan (D62)

Wild Swan in the Mediterranean in 1925
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wild Swan
Ordered	January 1918
Builder	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
Laid down	July 1918
Launched	17 May 1919
Commissioned	14 November 1919
Honours and awards	Dunkirk 1940 Atlantic 1940–42[1]
Fate	Sunk after air attack 17 June 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full
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, 30,000 shp
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range	320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nautical miles (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	127
Electronic warfare & decoys	ASDIC fitted 1939 Type 286M Air Warning RADAR fitted 1941
Armament	As built 1920 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes War Modifications cumulative 3 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 1 × QF 12 pounder AA gun 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes

HMS Wild Swan was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in 1918 from Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1917–18. She was the second Royal Navy ship to carry the name, after the sloop HMS Wild Swan in 1876. Like her sisters, she was completed too late to see action in the First World War.^[1]