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Completed: 1917
Displacement: 1,316-1,339 tons
Length: 300 ft
Beam: 26, 9 ft
Draught: 9 ft standard, 11 ft 3 in deep
Propulsion: 3 Yarrow-type Water-tube boilers (White-Forster type in Valentine), Brown-Curtis steam turbines (Parsons in Valentine, Valhalla), 2 shafts, 27,500 shp
Armament: 4 x QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45) guns, mount P Mk.I , 2 x QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) anti-aircraft guns 4 (2x2) tubes for 21-inch (530 mm) torpedoes
Speed: 34 Kts
Complement: 115
HMS Wivern served at south Atlantic Station base Freetown from Feb 1942 to January 1943 to support allied landings in North Africa. Operated in south Atlantic in several convoy Escort duties.