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Voyager

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ClassV/W (Scrap Iron Flotilla) class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullD31
FateSunk. Grounded in Betano Bay, Timor, on the night of 23 September 1942. Her own crew destroyed her after Japanese aircraft found the wreck. This is not the later Voyager lost in the Melbourne collision.
Armament (class)V and W destroyer. Four guns and two funnels.
Command
  • Morrow, James Captain from 26 April 1938
  • Robison In command when she grounded at Betano, 23 September 1942

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Voyager
Green, Allan C., 1878-1954, photographer. H.M.A.S. VOYAGER (9916490343607636).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

HMAS Voyager, pennant number D31, was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy and one of the ships of the Scrap Iron Flotilla. James Morrow was her captain from 26 April 1938. Robison was in command on the night she was lost.

On the night of 23 September 1942 she ran aground in Betano Bay, Timor, while landing troops. The hull remained stranded in the bay.

Japanese aircraft found the wreck, and her own crew destroyed her where she lay. A later ship of the same name, lost in a collision with Melbourne, was a different hull.

The pictures on this page are the originals.