HMS Walker (D27)

	HMS Walker underway in choppy conditions
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Walker
Ordered	9 December 1916
Builder	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Laid down	26 March 1917
Launched	29 November 1917
Completed	12 February 1918
Commissioned	12 February 1918
Decommissioned	1932
Identification	Pennant number:; G22 (January 1918); G08 (April 1918); D27 (interwar); I27 (May 1940);
Recommissioned	August 1939
Decommissioned	1945
Motto	Ready and faithful
Honours and; awards	Battle honours for:; Atlantic 1939-1943; Norway 1940; Normandy 1944; English Channel 1944; Arctic 1944-1945;
Fate	Sold 15 March 1946 for scrapping
Badge	A stag's head proper issuant from an Eastern Crown on a blue field
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,100 tons
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) in deep
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers; Brown-Curtis steam turbines; 2 shafts; 27,000 shp (20 MW);
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h)
Range	320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mk.V guns, mount P Mk.I; 2 × QF 2-pounder Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or;; 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II; 6 (2x3) tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes;

HMS Walker (D27) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I, in the Russian Civil War and in World War II.

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