HMS Walker (D27)
HMS Walker underway in choppy conditions
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| Name: | HMS Walker |
| Ordered: | 9 December 1916 |
| Builder: | William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 26 March 1917 |
| Launched: | 29 November 1917 |
| Completed: | 12 February 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 12 February 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1932 |
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| Recommissioned: | August 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Motto: | Ready and faithful |
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| Fate: | Sold 15 March 1946 for scrapping |
| Badge: | A stag's head proper issuant from an Eastern Crown on a blue field |
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| Class and type: | Admiralty W-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,100 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) in deep |
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| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Range: | 320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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HMS Walker (D27) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I, in the Russian Civil War and in World War II.
Walker was ordered on 9 December 1916; she was laid down by William Denny and Brothers at Dumbarton, Scotland, on 26 March 1917. She was launched on 29 November, completed on 12 February 1918 – fitted to lay mines and commissioned on the same day. She was assigned the pennant number G22 in January 1918; it was changed to G09 in April 1918, and to D27 during the interwar period.
All of the V- and W-class destroyers, Walker among them, were assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich Force for the rest of World War I, which ended with the armistice with Germany on 11 November 1918.
Walker took part in the British campaign against Bolshevik forces in the Baltic Sea during 1919, seeing action against Russian warships; from May 1919 she participated in a blockade of Bolshevik warships in Kronstadt and suffered two hits from the Bolshevik battleship Petropavlovsk during an attempted breakout by the Bolshevik fleet. She was part of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet from 1921 to 1930, and visited Helsinki in Finland, from 15 to 22 June 1926 when the flotilla made a cruise in the Baltic. She was decommissioned in 1932, transferred to the Reserve Fleet, and placed in reserve at Rosyth, Scotland.
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