HMAS Voyager (D31)
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.jpg/300px-HMAS_Voyager_(AWM_301643).jpg) HMAS Voyager |
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| Career (Australia) |   |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMAS Voyager |
| Builder: | Alexander Stephens and Sons |
| Laid down: | 7 May 1917 |
| Launched: | 8 May 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 24 June 1918 |
| Recommissioned: | 26 April 1938 |
| Fate: | Scuttled in September 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,100 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 1,470 tons |
| Length: | 312 ft 1 in (95.1 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 6 in (9.0 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Brown-Curtis turbines, twin screws, generating 27,000 hp |
| Speed: | 34 knots |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,480 km) at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 130 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4-inch guns 2 × 2-pounder gun 2 × 20mm Oerlikons 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (triple mount) |
The first HMAS Voyager (D-31/I-31) was a W class destroyer laid down by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Linthouse in Scotland on 7 May 1917, launched on 8 May 1918 and completed on 24 June 1918. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Voyager, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy at Portsmouth on 11 October 1933 and commissioned as HMAS Voyager. Voyager departed for Australia on 17 October 1933 and paid off to reserve on 14 April 1936, but re-commissioned on 26 April 1938. She served in the Mediterranean where she was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941.
On 27 June 1940 the Italian submarine Console Generale Liuzzi was scuttled south of Crete after being depth charged by HMAS Voyager and the British destroyers Dainty, Ilex, Decoy, Defender. On 29 June 1940 around 0615 the Italian submarine Argonauta was probably sunk near Cape Ras el Hilal, Libya by the same ships.
On 23 September 1942, while landing a Dutch and Australian guerilla force, she was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Badly damagaed, Voyager ran aground at Betano, Timor and was abandoned after fighting off Japanese attacks. The ship's company was safely evacuated by HMAS Kalgoorlie and HMAS Warrnambool on 25 September 1942 and the ship was destroyed by demolition charges.
In 2000, the wreck was explored by divers. Very little remains as it is exposed at high tide and has been looted.
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