Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer L00

HMS Valorous (L00)

Admiralty V-class flotilla leader

HMS Valorous (L00)
not stated. Assumed Royal Navy. — Scanned from "The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea . The Royal Navy in the Second World War" by Julian Thompson, published by Sidgwick & Jackson and Imperial War Museum, 1996, Page 239. From the papers of Commander J.A.J. Dennis RN 95/5/1 negative number DOC521 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — L00 Photograph of British V Class destroyer HMS Valorous. She has the twin QF 4-inch Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns installed as part of her WAIR conversion.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Valorous21 August 1917 — 15 August 19452,175 days of the war
Admiralty V-class flotilla leader Particulars
Name
HMS Valorous
Pennant / hull number
L00
Builder
William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Ordered
April 1916
Laid down
25 May 1916
Launched
8 May 1917
Commissioned
21 August 1917
Decommissioned
1931
Recommissioned
June 1939
Fate
For disposal 1946
Sold for scrapping 4 March 1947 (1946)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,339 long tons (1,360 t)
Length
95.1 m (312 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
115
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

HMS Valorous was a destroyer of the Admiralty V-class flotilla leader, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L00. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton laid her keel on 25 May 1916. Launched on 8 May 1917, she entered service on 21 August 1917.

She displaced 1,339 long tons. She measured 95.1 m (312 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 115. 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 in 1931. She recommissioned in June 1939.

She was broken up for scrap in 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, 27500 shp
Armament
  • 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45) guns, mount P Mk.I
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) anti-aircraft guns
  • 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Valorous (L00) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: not stated. Assumed Royal Navy. — Scanned from "The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea . The Royal Navy in the Second World War" by Julian Thompson, published by Sidgwick & Jackson and Imperial War Museum, 1996, Page 239. From the papers of Commander J.A.J. Dennis RN 95/5/1 negative number DOC521 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons