HMS Wakeful (H88)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Wakeful
Ordered9 December 1916
BuilderJohn Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down17 January 1917
Launched6 October 1917
Commissioned16 December 1917
IdentificationPennant number: H88
Motto
  • Si dormiam capiar
  • "If I sleep I may be caught"
FateSunk on 29 May 1940 by E-Boat S-30
Badge
  • On a Black field an eye proper with rays ensuing therefore, Gold.
  • Ship's badge
General characteristics
Class and typeAdmiralty W-class destroyer
Displacement1,100 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) in deep
Propulsion
  • 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
  • Brown-Curtis steam turbines
  • 2 shafts
  • 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement110
Armament

HMS Wakeful was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built under the 1916–1917 Programme in the 10th Destroyer order. Wakeful was assigned to the Grand Fleet after completion, and served into the early years of the Second World War. Wakeful was torpedoed and sunk during Operation Dynamo by a German E-Boat on 29 May 1940.