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HMS Volunteer (D71)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Volunteer.
The fourth HMS Volunteer (D71), later I71, was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II.
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Name | HMS Volunteer |
Namesake | volunteer |
Ordered | January 1918[1][2] |
Builder | William Denny and Brothers, Dunbarton[1] |
Laid down | 16 April 1918[1] |
Launched | 17 April 1919[1] |
Completed | 7 November 1919[1] |
Commissioned | 7 November 1919[2] |
Decommissioned | early 1930s[1] |
Recommissioned | August 1939[1] |
Decommissioned | May 1945[1] |
Motto | Pro aris et focis ("For Hearths and Homes ")[1] |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 3[1] or 4[2][3][4] March 1947 |
Badge | A gold lion's mask on a gold shield over a silver barry of three, all on a blue field[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
Length | 300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p |
Beam | 29.5 feet (9.0 m) |
Draught | 9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.4 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; 39 mph) |
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Complement | 127 |
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