HMS Wakeful (H88)

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History
United Kingdom
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
Motto	Si dormiam capiar "If I sleep I may be caught"
Fate	Sunk on 29 May 1940 by E-Boat S-30
Badge	On a Black field an eye proper with rays ensuing therefore, Gold.
General characteristics
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
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 in torpedoes

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.