HMS Windsor (D42)

HMS Windsor underway in coastal waters during World War II.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Windsor
Ordered	9 December 1916[1]
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock[1]
Laid down	April 1917[1]
Launched	21 June 1918[1]
Completed	28 August 1918[1]
Commissioned	28 August 1918[3]
Decommissioned	summer 1945[1]
Identification	Pennant number: F12 (September 1918)[2] D42 (interwar)[1] I42 (June 1940)[1]
Motto	Stat fortuna domus ("May the fortune of the House stand")[1]
Honours and awards	Battle honours for: Cartagena 1741 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor) Finisterre I 1747 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor) Finisterre II 1747 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor) Atlantic 1939–1940 Dunkirk 1940 Arctic 1942 English Channel 1942–1943 North Sea 1942–1945 Normandy 1944[1]
Fate	Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping[2]
Badge	A silver castle surmounted by the Royal Crown Proiper on a red field[1]
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 inch (533 mm) torpedoes twin QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun)

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.