HMS Veteran (D72)
Admiralty modified W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Veteran13 November 1919 — 26 September 19421,121 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Veteran
- Pennant / hull number
- D72
- Builder
- John Brown & Company
- Ordered
- April 1918
- Laid down
- 30 August 1918
- Launched
- 26 August 1919
- Commissioned
- 13 November 1919
- Fate
- Sunk on 26 September 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,550 long tons (1,575 t)
- Length
- 95.1 m (312 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 Veteran was a Admiralty modified W-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D72. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company on 30 August 1918. She entered service on 13 November 1919, having been launched on 26 August 1919.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons standard and 1,550 long tons at full load. She measured 95.1 m (312 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.
She was in commission for 1,121 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 26 September 1942, at 54°51′N 23°04′W. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- As built 1920:
- 4 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39)
- 6 × 21-inch torpedo tubes
SRE Conversion
- Speed
- 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h, 28.2 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Yarrow type water tube boilers
- Parsons geared steam turbines driving 2 shafts
- 18,000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns
- 1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval 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
- Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (replace 'A' turret)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Veteran (D72) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Roper, F G (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 9726 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons