Appearance generally same as Woolston, but funnels as Admiralty " V " boats.

• 2 Beardmore : Wakeful, Watchman.
• 2 Denny : Walker, Westcott.
• 2 Doxford : Walpole, Whitley.
• 2 Fairfield: Walrus, Wolfhound.
• 2 Hawthorn Leslie: Warwick, Wessex.
• 2 Palmer: Waterhen, Wryneck.
• 2 Scott: Westminster, Windsor.
• 2 Swan Hunter: Whirlwind, Wrestler.
• 2 White : Winchester, Winchelsea.

• Displacement: 1280-1316 tons (1300 average).
• Dimensions: 300 (p.p.), 312 (o.a.) x 29 x 9 feet (mean), 11.25 (max.) draught.
• Guns: 3-4 inch (Mk V DIR. CON.), 1-3 inch AA. Torpedo tubes: 6-21 inch in two triple deck mountings. Machinery: "All-Geared" turbines, Brown-Curtis in all except Palmer boats with Parsons. 2 screws. Designed S.H,P. 27 000 = 34 kts. Boilers: Yarrow, except White boats with White-Forster. Oil: about 370/320 tons.
• Complement, 127.

General Notes.-All Emergency War Programme. The Notes to the Admiralty V's also apply to these boats the only difference being in the increased number of tubes in above. The triple tubes are actually lighter than the "Admiralty M" Mark of twin tubes mounted in all preceding classes back to the M's. No War Losses.

To distinguish.-From Modified V's: 3 inch AA. gun in bandstand abaft second funnel ; from first V's : by shorter mainmast: from Vampire: by shorter foremast, no extension to S.L. platform for standard compass, after mast stands away from after superstructure.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - p 104

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