HMS Wager (R98)

HMS Wager on completion, 1944 (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wager
Ordered	December 1941
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down	20 November 1942
Launched	1 November 1943
Commissioned	14 April 1944
Identification	Pennant number: R98 later changed to D298
Motto	Spensione provoco - I challenge with a wager
Honours and awards	Okinawa 1945
Fate	Sold to Yugoslavia in October 1956
Badge	On a Field White, a cross Blue charged with five bessants within a horseshoe inverted Red.
History
Yugoslavia
Name	Pula
Namesake	City of Pula
Acquired	October 1956
Fate	Decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrapping
Notes	Pennant number: R22
General characteristics
Class and type	W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,710 tons (1,730 tonnes) 2,530 tons full (2,570 tonnes)
Length	362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a
Beam	35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30 MW), 2 shafts
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h) / 32 knots (59 km/h) full
Range	4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement	225
Sensors and processing systems	Radar Type 272 target indication Radar Type 291 air warning Radar Type 285 fire control on director Mk.III(W) Radar Type 282 fire control on 40 mm mount Mk.IV
Armament	4 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk.IX guns on single mounts CP Mk.XXII 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk.VIII guns on quad mount Mk.VII 4 × A/A mountings; twin 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.V single Bofors 40-mm Mk.III guns single QF 2 pdr Mk.XVI 8 (4x2) tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX 2 racks & 4 throwers for 70 depth charges

HMS Wager was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956, renamed Pula, and scrapped in 1971.