HMS Windsor underway in coastal waters during World War II.
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Windsor |
Ordered | 9 December 1916[2] |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock[2] |
Laid down | April 1917[2] |
Launched | 21 June 1918[2] |
Completed | 28 August 1918[2] |
Commissioned | 28 August 1918[3] |
Decommissioned | summer 1945[2] |
Identification |
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Motto | Stat fortuna domus ("May the fortune of the House stand")[2] |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping[1] |
Badge | A silver castle surmounted by the Royal Crown Proiper on a red field[2] |
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 |
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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 |
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The third HMS Windsor (D42) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.