HMS Worcester (D96)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Worcester and HMS Yeoman.
The eighth HMS Worcester (D96, later I96), was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She later served as an accommodation ship as the second HMS Yeoman.
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HMS Worcester moored at a buoy during World War II, sometime between the changing of her pennant number to I96 in June 1940 and her becoming a constructive total loss in December 1943. | |
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Name | HMS Worcester |
Ordered | April 1918[1][2] |
Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight, and Royal Navy Dockyard, Portsmouth[1] |
Laid down | 20 December 1918[1] |
Launched | 24 October 1919[1] |
Completed | 20 September 1922[1] |
Commissioned | 20 September 1922[2] |
Decommissioned | early 1930s[1] |
Recommissioned | September 1939[1] |
Fate | Constructive total loss 23 December 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | April 1944[1] |
Reclassified | Accommodation ship, May 1944 |
Recommissioned | June 1945 |
Renamed | HMS Yeoman, June 1945[2][3] |
Fate | Sold 17 September 1946[3] for scrapping |
Motto | In bello in pace fidelis ("Faithful in peace and war")[1] |
Honours and awards | |
Badge | A silver castle with three towers on a field divided into black and red quarters[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
Length | 300 ft o/a, 312 ft 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 kt |
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Complement | 127 |
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