HMS Windsor (D42)

	HMS Windsor underway in coastal waters during World War II.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Windsor
Ordered	9 December 1916
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
Laid down	April 1917
Launched	21 June 1918
Completed	28 August 1918
Commissioned	28 August 1918
Decommissioned	summer 1945
Identification	Pennant number:; F12 (September 1918); D42 (interwar); I42 (June 1940);
Motto	Stat fortuna domus ("May the fortune of the House stand")
Honours and; awards	Battle honours for:; Cartagena 1741 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor); Finisterre I 1747 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor); Finisterre II 1747 (carried forward from the first HMS Windsor); Atlantic 1939–1940; Dunkirk 1940; Arctic 1942; English Channel 1942–1943; North Sea 1942–1945; Normandy 1944;
Fate	Sold 4 March 1947 for scrapping
Badge	A silver castle surmounted by the Royal Crown Proiper on a red field
General characteristics
Displacement	1,100 tons
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m)p/p
Beam	26.75 ft (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11.25 ft (3.43 m) in deep
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers; Brown-Curtis steam turbines; 2 shafts; 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
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 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II; 6 (2x3) tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes; twin QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun);

The third HMS Windsor (D42) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.

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