HMS Venetia
Admiralty V-class destroyer
- Displacement
- 1,339 long tons (1,360 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as HMS Venetia19 December 1917 — 19 October 1940414 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Venetia
- Pennant / hull number
- F93
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 30 June 1916
- Laid down
- 2 February 1917
- Launched
- 29 October 1917
- Commissioned
- 19 December 1917
- Recommissioned
- September 1939
- Fate
- Sunk 19 October 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,339 long tons (1,360 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Venetia was a Admiralty V-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F93. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan on 2 February 1917. She entered service on 19 December 1917, having been launched on 29 October 1917.
She displaced 1,339 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). She carried a complement of 110. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 414 days of the Second World War. She recommissioned in September 1939.
She was sunk on 19 October 1940, at 51°33′N 1°01′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
- Brown-Curtis steam turbines
- 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- or
- 1 × QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
- 4 (2 x 2) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Venetia on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.