HMS Wryneck (D21)
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HMS Wryneck was an Admiralty W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, which was sunk during the Battle of Greece on 27 April 1941.[1]
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Wryneck with a tug on her starboard side and a hospital ship in the background. About 1940, probably at Sollum, Egypt. | |
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Name | HMS Wryneck |
Namesake | Wryneck |
Ordered | 16 December 1916 |
Builder | Palmers, Jarrow |
Laid down | April 1917 |
Launched | 13 May 1918 |
Completed | 11 November 1918 |
Motto | Lay on |
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Fate | Sunk by aircraft in the Aegean north of Crete, 27 April 1941 |
Badge | On a Field Green a Wryneck on a branch all Proper |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,100 long tons (1,118 t) |
Length | |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
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Complement | 110 |
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