![]() HMAS Voyager
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History | |
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Name | Voyager |
Builder | Alexander Stephens and Sons |
Laid down | 17 May 1917 |
Launched | 8 May 1918 |
Commissioned | 24 June 1918 |
Decommissioned | 11 October 1933 |
Fate | Transferred to RAN |
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Name | Voyager |
Acquired | 11 October 1933 |
Commissioned | 11 October 1933 |
Decommissioned | 14 April 1936 |
Recommissioned | 26 April 1938 |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Ran aground 23 September 1942, scuttled |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | W-class destroyer |
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Length |
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Beam | 29 ft 6 in (9.0 m) |
Draught | 14 ft 7 in (4.4 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × Yarrow boilers, 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW), two shafts |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 2,600 nautical miles (4,800 km; 3,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 113 sailors |
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HMAS Voyager (D31/I31) (formerly HMS Voyager (G36/G16/D31)) was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Commissioned into the RN in 1918, the destroyer remained in RN service until 1933, when she was transferred to the RAN. Recommissioned, Voyager served in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of World War II until 23 September 1942, when she ran aground while trying to deliver troops to Timor. The ship was damaged by Japanese bombers while trying to refloat, then was scuttled by her crew.