HMS Wrestler
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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.
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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 |
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Class and type | V and W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,100 long tons (1,118 t) |
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Beam | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 11+1⁄2 in (3.64 m) deep |
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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 |
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