Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer L41

HMS Vega (L41)

Admiralty V-class destroyer

HMS Vega (L41)
Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 676 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — L41 Photograph of the Royal Navy V class destroyer HMS Vega in a Russian port

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Vega14 December 1917 — 19452,193 days of the war
Admiralty V-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Vega
Pennant / hull number
L41
Namesake
Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra
Builder
William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland
Ordered
30 June 1916
Laid down
11 December 1916
Launched
1 September 1917
Commissioned
14 December 1917
Decommissioned
1921
Recommissioned
1939
Fate
Sold for scrapping 4 March 1947 (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)
Range
3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement
110
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

HMS Vega was a Admiralty V-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L41. She was named for Vega. William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland laid her keel on 11 December 1916. She entered service on 14 December 1917, having been launched on 1 September 1917.

Displacement was 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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1921. She recommissioned in 1939.

She was broken up for scrap on 4 March 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, 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 z QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
  • 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Vega (L41) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 676 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons