HMAS Voyager (D31)

HMAS Voyager
History
United Kingdom
Name	Voyager
Builder	Alexander Stephens and Sons
Laid down	17 May 1917
Launched	8 May 1918
Commissioned	24 June 1918
Decommissioned	11 October 1933
Fate	Transferred to RAN
Australia
Name	Voyager
Acquired	11 October 1933
Commissioned	11 October 1933
Decommissioned	14 April 1936
Recommissioned	26 April 1938
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Darwin 1942 Calabria 1940 Libya 1940–41 Greece 1941 Crete 1941 Mediterranean 1941 Pacific 1942
Fate	Ran aground 23 September 1942, scuttled
General characteristics
Class and type	W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,100 tons standard 1,470 tons full load
Length	312 ft 1 in (95.1 m) length overall 300 ft (91.4 m) between perpendiculars
Beam	29 ft 6 in (9.0 m)
Draught	14 ft 7 in (4.4 m)
Propulsion	3 × Yarrow boilers, 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW), two shafts
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	2,600 nautical miles (4,800 km; 3,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	6 officers, 113 sailors
Armament	4 × QF 4-inch Mk V guns 1 × QF 2-pounder naval gun (later increased to 2) 5 × .303 inch machine guns 2 × 3-tube 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo sets (1 later removed) 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon Depth charge chutes and throwers

HMAS Voyager (D31/I31) (formerly HMS Voyager (G36/G16/D31)) was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Commissioned into the RN in 1918, the destroyer remained in RN service until 1933, when she was transferred to the RAN. Recommissioned, Voyager served in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of World War II until 23 September 1942, when she ran aground while trying to deliver troops to Timor. The ship was damaged by Japanese bombers while trying to refloat, then was scuttled by her crew.