HMS Versatile (D32)

HMS Versatile moored to a buoy during World War II sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I32.
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Versatile
Namesakeversatile
Ordered30 June 1916
BuilderHawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside
Laid down31 January 1917
Launched31 October 1917
Completed11 February 1918
Commissioned11 February 1918
DecommissionedOctober 1936
Identification
Recommissioned1939
Decommissionedsummer 1945
MottoOmnibus eadem ("The same in all (winds)")
Honours &
awards
FateSold for scrapping 7 May 1947
BadgeA gold weather vane on a black field
General characteristics
Class & typeAdmiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement1,272–1,339 tons
Length300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p
Beam26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Draught9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep
Propulsion
  • 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
  • Brown-Curtis steam turbines
  • 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed34 kt
Range320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt
Complement110
Armament

HMS Versatile (D32) was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.

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