HMS Wrestler

HMS Wrestler underway
History
United Kingdom
Name	Wrestler
Ordered	9 December 1916
Builder	Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Laid down	July 1917
Launched	25 February 1918
Commissioned	15 May 1918
Out of service	6 June 1944
Motto	"Nitendo vincimus"[1] ("By doing our utmost we win")
Fate	Mined off Juno Beach, 6 June 1944 Sold for scrap, 20 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	V and W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Draught	11 ft 11+1⁄2 in (3.64 m) deep
Installed power	3 × Yarrow boilers 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	Parsons steam turbines 2 shafts
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4 in (102 mm) gun 1 × QF 12 pdr (76 mm) 2 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Wrestler (D35) was a V and W-class destroyer built by the Royal Navy during the First World War and active from 1939 to 1944 during the Second World War. She was the first Royal Navy ship to bear that name, and the only one to do so to date.