NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Waterhen	D22		Palmers, Jarrow, UK	7.1917	26.3.1918	7.1918 // 10.1933	sunk 29.6.1941
Voyager	D31		A. Stephens, Linthouse, UK	5.1917	8.5.1918	6.1918 // 10.1933	wrecked and scuttled 23.9.1942

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1100
Displacement full, t	1490
Length, m	95.1
Breadth, m	9.00
Draught, m	3.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	27000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 367
Endurance, nm(kts)	2600(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR, mechanical minesweeping gear
Electronic equipment	type 124 or type 127 sonar
Complement	134

Standard scale images

Project history

In December 1916 orders were placed for 23 repeat 'V' class, but with the triple TT which had not been ready in time for the 'V's. They were virtually identical, the J S White boats having the same level topped and ribbed funnels as the Vectis and Vortigern, and the Thornycrofi 'specials' having the same high freeboard and flat-sided after funnel as the Viceroy and Viscount. Two ordered from Yarrow, to be named Wayfarer and Woodpecker, were cancelled in April 1917 and replaced by 'S' class. In 1918 five ships were completed as minelayers.

Modernizations

early 1940, both: - 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 4 - 12.7/62 (33 DC)

early 1941, both: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V

1941 - 1942, presumably: + type 271, type 286/M/P radars

Naval service

Waterhen 29.6.1941 was badly damaged by Italian Ju 87 bombers at Tobruk and 30.6.1941 sunk at tow N of Es-Sallum. Voyager 23.9.1942 ran aground as a result of a nautical fault S of Timor and abandoned.