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HMS ''Westcott'' (D47) was a Royal Navy Admiralty W class destroyer that served in the Second World War. In the Second World War ''Westcott'' served in an anti-submarine role and escorted numerous Atlantic and Malta convoys. ==Construction and design== On 9 December 1916, the British Admiralty placed an order for 21 large destroyers based on the V class, which became the Admiralty W class. Of these destroyers, two, ''Westcott'' and were ordered from the Scottish shipbuilders William Denny and Brothers. ''Westcott'' was long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of between and depending on load. Displacement was standard, and up to deep load. Three oil-fed Yarrow boilers raising steam at fed Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines which developed , driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of .〔 The ship carried of oil giving a range of at .〔 ''Westcott''s main gun armament consisted of four 4-inch Mk V QF guns in four single mounts on the ship's centerline. These were disposed as two forward and two aft in superimposed firing positions. A single QF 3-inch (76 mm) 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun was mounted aft of the second funnel. Aft of the 3-inch gun, she carried six 21-inch torpedo tubes mounted in two triple mounts on the center-line.〔〔 ''Westcott'' was laid down at Denny's Dumbarton, Scotland shipyard on 30 March 1917, and was launched on 14 February 1918.〔 She was commissioned on 2 April and completed on 12 April.〔 She was named after Captain George Blagdon Westcott, who was killed at the Battle of the Nile. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Westcott (D47)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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