 HMS Whitehall underway in coastal waters during the Second World War sometime after her pennant number was changed from D94 to I94 in May 1940.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Whitehall |
| Namesake | Whitehall |
| Ordered | January 1918[1][2] |
| Builder | Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Chatham Dockyard[1] |
| Laid down | June 1918[1] |
| Launched | 11 September 1919[1] |
| Completed | July 1924[1] |
| Commissioned | 9 July 1924[2] |
| Decommissioned | 1920s/1930s[1] |
| Recommissioned | August 1939[1] |
| Decommissioned | May 1945[1] |
| Motto | Nisi Dominici frustra ("Without my Lords [of the Admiralty] in vain")[1] |
| Honours and awards | |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping October 1945[1][2][3][4] |
| Badge | A gold fouled anchor on an escutcheon held by a silver winged seahorse, all on a blue field[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
| Length | |
| Beam | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m), 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) under full load |
| Propulsion | Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
| Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h) |
| Range | |
| Complement | 127 |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Armament |
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The unsuccessful Thornycroft five-barreled long-range depth charge projector during trials in July 1941 installed on the forecastle of HMS Whitehall.
HMS Whitehall, pennant number D94, later I94, was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War.
- ^ a b c uboat.net HMS Whitehall (D 94)
- ^ Colledge, J. J., Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy From the Fifteenth Century to the Present, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-652-X, p. 380, claims that the ship arrived at the shipbreaker's yard on 25 July 1945.