HMS Wanderer (D74)

	HMS Wanderer in October 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wanderer
Ordered	January 1918
Builder	Fairfield's of Glasgow
Laid down	7 August 1918
Launched	1 May 1919
Commissioned	18 September 1919
Recommissioned	1939
In service	1919-1945
Out of service	1945-1946
Reclassified	1943 Long Range Escort
Motto	Vagantes numquam erramus; 'Wandering we never stray';
Honours and; awards	Atlantic (1939-45); Norway 1940; Sicily 1943; Normandy 1944; Arctic 1944; English Channel 1944;
Fate	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 31 January 1946
Badge	Gold Bee on a Blue Field
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty modified W class destroyer
Displacement	1,112 tons standard
Length	300 feet (91 m) o/a, 312 feet (95 m) p/p
Beam	29.6 feet (9.0 m)
Draught	11.7 feet (3.6 m) under full load
Depth	18.3 feet (5.6 m)
Propulsion	As built 1919:; 3 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,120 shp, 260 rpm; LRE conversion 1943; 2 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 18,000 shp;
Speed	1919: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph); 1943: 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph);
Range	320-370 tons oil; 3,500 nmi at 15 kn; 900 nmi at 32 kn;
Complement	1919: 134; 1943: 193;
Sensors and ; processing systems	1943 LRE conversion; Type 271 target indication radar; Type 291 air warning radar;
Armament	As built 1919:; 4 × BL 4.7in (120mm) Mk.I guns on CP VI mounting; 2 × QF 2 pounder (40 mm) Mk.II guns; 1 × .303 inch Maxim gun; 4 × .303 inch Lewis Guns; 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (in 2 × triple mountings); 1 × Single Depth charge chute; 1943 LRE conversion:; 2 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I guns; 1 × .303 inch Lewis Gun; 4 × Twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon's; 1 × Single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon; 2 × Double Depth charge throwers; 2 × Double Depth charge chutes; 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (firing 24 × 32 pound spigot mounted bombs); March 1944:; + 1 QF 2 pounder gun; + 1 single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon;

HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the seventh RN ship to carry the name Wanderer. She was ordered in January 1918 to be built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan in Glasgow, being launched in May 1919. She served through World War II where she was jointly credited with five kills on German U-boats, more than any other ship of her class. In December 1941 the community of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire officially adopted her. In 1943 she was one of twenty one V&W class destroyers to be converted as Long Range Escorts. She was decommissioned after the war and sold for scrap in 1946.

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