HMS Versatile (D32)

	HMS Versatile moored to a buoy during World War II sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I32.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Versatile
Namesake	versatile
Ordered	30 June 1916
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside
Laid down	31 January 1917
Launched	31 October 1917
Completed	11 February 1918
Commissioned	11 February 1918
Decommissioned	October 1936
Identification	Pennant number:; F29 (1917); G10; D32 (interwar); I32 (May 1940);
Recommissioned	1939
Decommissioned	summer 1945
Motto	Omnibus eadem ("The same in all (winds)")
Honours and; awards	Battle honours for:; Atlantic 1939–1945; North Sea 1941–1945; Normandy 1944; English Channel 1944–1945;
Fate	Sold for scrapping 7 May 1947
Badge	A gold weather vane on a black field
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement	1,272–1,339 tons
Length	300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers; Brown-Curtis steam turbines; 2 shafts, 27,000 shp;
Speed	34 kt
Range	320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I; 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or;; 1 z QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II; 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes;

HMS Versatile (D32) was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.

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