HMS Versatile (D32)

HMS Versatile (I32)
HMS Versatile moored to a buoy during World War II sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I32.
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Versatile
Namesakeversatile
Ordered30 June 1916[3]
BuilderHawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside[2]
Laid down31 January 1917[4]
Launched31 October 1917[2]
Completed11 February 1918[2]
Commissioned11 February 1918[3]
DecommissionedOctober 1936[2]
Identification
Recommissioned1939[2]
Decommissionedsummer 1945[2]
MottoOmnibus eadem ("The same in all (winds)")[2]
Honours and
awards
FateSold for scrapping 7 May 1947[5]
BadgeA gold weather vane on a black field[2]
General characteristics
Class and typeAdmiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement1,272–1,339 tons
Length300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p
Beam26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Draught9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep
Propulsion
  • 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
  • Brown-Curtis steam turbines
  • 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed34 kt
Range320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt
Complement110
Armament
Ship's crest of HMS Versatile, depicting a gold weather vane on a black field, photographed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, on 3 June 2012.

HMS Versatile (D32) was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.

  1. ^ a b Naval History: SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 1914–1919 – in ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Part 2 of 2)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Naval History: HMS VERSATILE (D 32) – V & W-class Destroyer
  3. ^ a b uboat.net HMS Versatile (D 32)
  4. ^ hmscavalier.org.uk HMS Versatile (D32)
  5. ^ Scrapping date per Colledge, J.J., Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-652-X, p. 366. According to uboat.net HMS Versatile (D 32), she was sold in June 1948, while Naval History: SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 1914–1919 – in ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Part 2 of 2) claims she was sold in August 1948 and Naval History: HMS VERSATILE (D 32) – V & W-class Destroyer states she was sold in 1949.