HMS Wolverine (D78)

HMS Wolverine in 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wolverine
Ordered	April 1918
Builder	James Samuel White & Co Ltd
Laid down	8 October 1918
Launched	17 July 1919
Commissioned	27 February 1920
Out of service	To reserve May 1945 Disposal List September 1945
Stricken	sold for scrap 28 January 1946
Identification	Pennant numbers D78 and I78
Motto	Avidus laboris gloriae – "Greedy of work, greedy of labour"
Honours and awards	Martinique 1808 Dardanelles 1915–16 Atlantic 1939–45 Norway 1940 Malta Convoys 1942
Fate	Scrapped 1946
Badge	On a Field White, on a mount Green, a Wolverine proper.
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty modified W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,140 tons standard 1,550 tons full load
Length	300 feet (91 m) o/a, 312 feet (95 m) p/p
Beam	29.5 feet (9.0 m)
Draught	9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.43 m) under full load
Propulsion	Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h)
Range	320-370 tons oil 3,500 nmi (6,480 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) 900 nmi (1,670 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	127
Sensors and processing systems	Type 286M Air Warning Radar fitted 1941 Type 271 Target Indication Radar fitted 1942
Armament	As built 1920: 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 6 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (2×3) 1942 SRE conversion: 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns 1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40mm L/39) 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (1×3) 2 × depth charge racks Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (replaced 'A' turret 1944)
Service record
Operations:	World War II
Victories:	Dagabur U-76

HMS Wolverine was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in April 1918 from James Samuel White & Co Ltd under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Programme of 1917–18. She was the seventh Royal Navy Ship to carry the name. It had been introduced in 1798 for a gun brig and last borne by a destroyer sunk after a collision in 1917.^[1]