HMS Valentine (R17)

V-class destroyer

Service

Royal Canadian Navy as Algonquin28 February 1944 — 6 February 1946552 days of the war

V-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Valentine
Pennant / hull number: R17
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down: 8 October 1942
Launched: 2 September 1943
Commissioned: 28 February 1944
Fate: Scrapped April 1971 (1971)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 2,700 long tons (2,743 t)
Length: 110.34 m (362 ft)
Beam: 10.67 m (35 ft)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed: 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
Range: 4,860 nmi (9,001 km)
Complement: 250
Main gun: 119 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Valentine was a V-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Canadian Navy. She carried the pennant number R17. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 8 October 1942. Launched on 2 September 1943, she entered service on 28 February 1944.

30 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Nelson-class battleship and was succeeded by the Lion-class battleship.

Displacement was 2,700 long tons. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 31 knots, and she carried a complement of 250.

Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns.

She was in commission for 552 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in April 1971.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2-shaft Parsons geared turbines
40000 shp
Armament: 4 × 4.7 in QF Mk IX guns (4×1)
2 × 40 mm Mk IV guns
4 × 20 mm cannons (4×1)
8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×4)

Sister ships

5 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Valentine (R17) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: White, Alan Wallace, RAN — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons