Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer F99

HMS Viceroy

HMS Viceroy
Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18844/large.jpg This photograph FL 5440 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — F99 HMS Viceroy Underway.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Viceroy18 January 1918 — 15 August 19452,175 days of the war
HMS Viceroy Particulars
Name
HMS Viceroy
Pennant / hull number
F99
Namesake
viceroy
Builder
John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
Ordered
30 June 1916
Laid down
12 December 1916
Launched
17 November 1917
Commissioned
18 January 1918
Decommissioned
15 August 1945
Recommissioned
January 1941
Fate
Sold 15 May 1947 or June 1948 for scrapping (1947)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,120 long tons (1,138 t)
Length
91.44 m (300 ft) OA
Beam
9.14 m (30 ft)
Draught
3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Range
3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement
134
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

HMS Viceroy was a destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F99. The ship was named after viceroy. Her keel was laid at John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 12 December 1916. She entered service on 18 January 1918, having been launched on 17 November 1917.

Displacement was 1,120 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 134. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 2,175 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 August 1945. She recommissioned in January 1941.

She was broken up for scrap on 15 May 1947.

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, 30,000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × QF 4 in Mk V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
  • 1 × QF 3-inch 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
  • 6 (3x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Viceroy on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18844/large.jpg This photograph FL 5440 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons