HMS Verdun
Admiralty V-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Verdun3 November 1917 — April 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Verdun
- Pennant / hull number
- D93
- Namesake
- Battle of Verdun
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company
- Ordered
- 1916
- Laid down
- 13 January 1917
- Launched
- 21 August 1917
- Commissioned
- 3 November 1917
- Fate
- Sold for scrap in April 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
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)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Verdun was a Admiralty V-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D93. The ship was named after Battle of Verdun. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie and Company on 13 January 1917. She entered service on 3 November 1917, having been launched on 21 August 1917.
Displacement was 1,339 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 110. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in April 1946.
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, 27000 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 × 12 pounder 12 gun Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
- 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Verdun on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10470 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons