HMS Worcester (D96)

	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.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Worcester
Ordered	April 1918
Builder	J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight, and Royal Navy Dockyard, Portsmouth
Laid down	20 December 1918
Launched	24 October 1919
Completed	20 September 1922
Commissioned	20 September 1922
Decommissioned	early 1930s
Recommissioned	September 1939
Fate	Constructive total loss 23 December 1943
Decommissioned	April 1944
Reclassified	Accommodation ship, May 1944
Recommissioned	June 1945
Renamed	HMS Yeoman, June 1945
Fate	Sold 17 September 1946 for scrapping
Motto	In bello in pace fidelis ("Faithful in peace and war")
Honours and; awards	Dunkirk 1940; Atlantic 1940; North Sea 1942-1943; Dover Straits 1942; English Channel 1942; Arctic 1943;
Badge	A silver castle with three towers on a field divided into black and red quarters
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
Range	320–370 tons oil; 3,500 nmi at 15 kt; 900 nmi at 32 kt;
Complement	127
Sensors and ; processing systems	Type 286M Air Warning Radar fitted 1940; Type 271 Surface Warning Radar fitted 1940;
Armament	As built 1920:; 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I; 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39); 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes; 1940 SRE conversion:; 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA gun; 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39); 3 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes (one triple mount); 2 × depth charge racks; twin QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun);

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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