Westcott
Country | United Kingdom |
Ship Class | V and W-class Destroyer |
Builder | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Laid Down | 30 Mar 1917 |
Launched | 14 Feb 1918 |
Commissioned | 12 Apr 1918 |
Decommissioned | 8 Jan 1946 |
Displacement | 1,100 tons standard |
Length | 300 feet |
Beam | 27 feet |
Draft | 11 feet |
Machinery | Three Yarrow boilers, two Brown-Curtis steam turbines, two shafts |
Bunkerage | 320-370t oil |
Power Output | 27,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed | 34 knots |
Range | 3,500nm at 15kt |
Crew | 110 |
Armament | 4x102mm QF 4in Mk.V, 2x40mm QF 2-pdr 20 cwt Mk.I, 2x3x21in torpedo tubes |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseDestroyer Westscott was of WW1 vintage. On 16 Jan 1941, she picked up 143 survivors from the British passenger ship Oropasa that was torpedoed and sank by the German submarine U-96. On 2 Feb 1942, southwest of the Azores, she sank the German submarine U-581, which was the first sinking of a hostile ship using the Hedgehog ship-borne mortar. On 8 Nov 1942, she aided the Allied invasion of North Africa, in which she attacked the French submarine Actéon off Oran, sinking her. In Jul 1943, she was modernized so that she could be a part of the Royal Navy's Long Range Escort group. After the war, she was sold for scrap on 8 Jan 1946.
ww2dbaseSource: uboat.net.
Last Major Revision: Jun 2008
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Westcott Operational Timeline
12 Apr 1918 | Westcott was commissioned into service. |
8 Jan 1946 | Westcott was decommissioned from service. |
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