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Name | HMS Wakeful |
Ordered | 9 December 1916 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Laid down | 17 January 1917 |
Launched | 6 October 1917 |
Commissioned | 16 December 1917 |
Identification | Pennant number: H88 |
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Fate | Sunk on 29 May 1940 by E-Boat S-30 |
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Class and type | Admiralty W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,100 tons |
Length | 300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m)p/p |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) in deep |
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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 |
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HMS Wakeful was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built under the 1916–1917 Programme in the 10th Destroyer order. Wakeful was assigned to the Grand Fleet after completion, and served into the early years of the Second World War. Wakeful was torpedoed and sunk during Operation Dynamo by a German E-Boat on 29 May 1940.