HMS Whitley (L23)

HMS Whitley (L 23)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Whitby
Ordered	9 December 1916[1]
Builder	William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland[2]
Laid down	June 1917[2]
Renamed	HMS Whitley
Namesake	Misspelling of originally intended name "Whitby"[2]
Launched	13 April 1918[2]
Completed	11 October 1918[2]
Commissioned	14 October 1918[1]
Decommissioned	1921
Recommissioned	1923
Decommissioned	1932
Recommissioned	1939
Identification	Pennant number L23
Motto	Silence is golden[2]
Fate	Beached 19 May 1940; scuttled[2]
Badge	The Mace of the Speaker of the House of Commons on a red field
General characteristics
Displacement	1,100 tons
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m)p/p
Beam	26.75 ft (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11.25 ft (3.43 m) in deep
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 2 shafts 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	320–370 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)
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or; 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II 6 (2x3) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

HMS Whitley (L23), ex-Whitby, was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the British campaign in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War and in the early months of World War II.