HMS Vesper

Admiralty V-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Vesper20 February 1918 — 19452,193 days of the war

Admiralty V-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Vesper
Builder: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow
Ordered: 30 June 1916
Laid down: 7 December 1916
Launched: 15 December 1917
Commissioned: 20 February 1918
Decommissioned: 1945
Recommissioned: 1939
Fate: Sold for scrapping 7 March 1947
Scrapping began March 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)
Range: 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement: 110
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Vesper was a Admiralty V-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow laid her keel on 7 December 1916. Launched on 15 December 1917, she entered service on 20 February 1918.

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 1945. She recommissioned in 1939.

She was broken up for scrap on 7 March 1947.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

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 × QF 3-inch 20 cwt (76-mm) Mk.I, mount HA Mk.II
4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Vesper on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7423/large.jpg This photograph FL 21018 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons