Royal Navy — Destroyer
D34
HMS Velox (D34)
Admiralty V-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Velox1 April 1918 — 19472,193 days of the war
Admiralty V-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Velox
- Pennant / hull number
- D34
- Builder
- Doxford, Pallion
- Laid down
- January 1917
- Launched
- 17 November 1917
- Commissioned
- 1 April 1918
- Fate
- Broken up 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,272 long tons (1,292 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft)
- Beam
- 8.2 m (26.9 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Velox was a Admiralty V-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D34. Her keel was laid at Doxford, Pallion in January 1917. Launched on 17 November 1917, she entered service on 1 April 1918.
She displaced 1,272 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 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 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 Mark V guns, mounting P Mk. I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II
- 2 × twin tubes for 21" torpedoes. Later converted to one twin and one triple tube
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Velox (D34) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 20916 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons