depot ship destroyer tender built royal_navy 1930s ship initially deployed support destroyers mediterranean_fleet world war assigned home mediterranean briefly returned home rejoined mediterranean_fleet following year permanently returned united_kingdom maintenance accommodation ship ship sold scrap description overall length feet inches beam feet draught feet inches deep load normally displaced long tons long tons load ship sets parsons geared steam turbines drove propeller shaft steam supplied admiralty drum water tube boilers turbines rated shaft horsepower gave speed knots mph ship carried long tons fuel oil gave range nautical miles knots mph crew numbered officers enlisted men initially armed quick firing inch gun single high angle mounts amidships inch gun mount maximum elevation degrees gun fire muzzle velocity maximum height feet range yards rate fire rounds minute guns controlled high angle control system fire control director mounted bridge resupply destroyers ship carried seventy inch torpedoes depth charges world war anti aircraft armament reinforced pounder light anti aircraft guns single mounts forecastle gun fired millimetre pound shell muzzle velocity distance yards gun rate fire approximately rounds minute guns single mounts fitted quadruple vickers machine gun mounts radars added war type gunnery radar mounted director type surface search radar installed pounder guns forecastle main deck consisted inch armour plate machinery spaces platform deck inches thick magazines construction service ship ordered april naval construction programme laid launched september completed june deployed mediterranean completion alexandria beginning world war september ship returned home based scapa_flow supporting destroyers home_fleet sailed mediterranean september africa kenya repairs boilers arrived alexandria november mid june vice admiral commander chief mediterranean_fleet ordered non essential ships leave alexandria preparing demolish port facilities prevent capture advancing repair ship escorted destroyers transferred south suez_canal victory second battle october allowed return alexandria remained late assigned based rest war sailed england rejoined mediterranean_fleet following year served flagship flag officer ship sailed malta february served maintenance accommodation ship reserve ships based refitted transferred perform similar duties refitted years later served accommodation ship devonport sold scrap arrived scotland october broken
HMS Woolwich (F80)