HMS Vivien
Admiralty V-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Vivien28 May 1918 — 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Vivien
- Pennant / hull number
- G39
- Builder
- Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow
- Ordered
- 30 June 1916
- Laid down
- July 1916
- Launched
- 16 February 1918
- Commissioned
- 28 May 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Recommissioned
- September 1939
- Fate
- For disposal 1947
Sold for scrapping 18 February 1948 (1947) - 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 Vivien was a Admiralty V-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G39. Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow laid her keel in July 1916. Launched on 16 February 1918, she entered service on 28 May 1918.
She displaced 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 decommissioned in 1945. She recommissioned in September 1939.
She was broken up for scrap in 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, 27000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in L/45 Mk.V guns, 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
- 2 × twin tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Vivien on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19991/large.jpg This photograph FL 21160 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons