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

HMS Venomous

Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer

HMS Venomous
Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 1975 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate Photograph of British V class destroyer HMS Venomous.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Venom24 August 1919 — 19452,193 days of the war
Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Venomous
Builder
John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Ordered
January 1918
Launched
21 December 1918
Commissioned
24 August 1919
Decommissioned
1929
Recommissioned
October 1938
Fate
Sold for scrapping 4 March 1947 (1947)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length
91.44 m (300 ft) OA
Beam
8.99 m (29.5 ft)
Draught
2.74 m (9 ft)
Speed
34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
Range
3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement
127
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Venomous was a Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. She entered service on 24 August 1919, having been launched on 21 December 1918.

Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 127. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

27,000 shp drove two shafts.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1929. She recommissioned in October 1938.

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
  • Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts
Power
  • 27000 shp
Armament
  • As built 1920:
  • 4 × BL 4.7 in Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
  • 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 1940 SRE conversion:
  • 3 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
  • 1 × 3 in AA gun
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
  • 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (one triple mount)
  • 2 × depth charge racks
  • Twin 6-pounder army gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun)

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Venomous on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 1975 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons