Type: .................... Destroyer 'V' Class
Pennant: ............... D31
Displacement: ..... 1,100 tons
Length: ................ 312 feet 1 inch (overall)
Beam: .................. 29 feet 6 inches
Draught: .............. 12 feet 6 inches (mean)
Speed: .................. 34 knots
Laid Down: .......... 7th May 1917
Launched: ............ 8th May 1918
Armament: ........... 4x4 inch guns; 2x2 pdr guns; 2 Oerlikons 20 mm; 3x21 inch torpedo tubes (1 triple mount) Originally 6 tubes (2 triple mounts)
Builders: .............. Alexander Stephens and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland
Machinery: .......... Brown- Curtis Turbines SHP 27,000
Commissioned: .... RN 24th June 1918

In 1933 Admiralty agreed to lend the Flotilla leader STUART and four 'V' Class destroyers (VAMPIRE, VENDETTA, VOYAGER and WATERHEN) to the Royal Australian Navy as a replacement for the 'S' Class destroyers (STALWART, SUCCESS, SWORDSMAN, 'TASMANIA, and TATTOO) and the Flotilla leader ANZAC then due for scrapping.

VOYAGER and the other four ships commissioned in the RAN at Portsmouth on 11th October 1933 to form the Australian Destroyer Flotilla, later to become famous as the 'Scrap Iron Flotilla'. The Flotilla with STUART as leader departed Portsmouth for Australia on 17th October 1933, reaching Singapore on 25th November and Sydney on 21st December.