HMS Vanessa (D29)
HMS Vanessa (I49) docked at Blackwell during World War II.
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 United Kingdom
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| Class and type: | Admiralty V-class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Vanessa |
| Ordered: | 30 June 1916 |
| Builder: | William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1917 |
| Launched: | 16 March 1918 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Frederick Elvy |
| Completed: | 21 June 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1921 |
| Recommissioned: | 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Motto: | Quandmeme J'arrive ("I get there when I arrive") |
| Honours and awards: |
Battle honour for Atlantic 1939-1943 |
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| Badge: | A blue butterfly on a white field |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Admiralty V-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,272-1,339 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep |
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| Speed: | 34 kn |
| Range: | 320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kn, 900 nmi at 32 kn |
| Complement: | 110 |
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| Notes: | Pennant number: D29 |
HMS Vanessa (D29) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that was in service during World War I and World War II.
Vanessa, the second Royal Navy ship and first major warship of the name, was ordered on 30 June 1916 as part of the 9th Order of the 1916-17 Naval Programme. She was laid down 10 May 1917 by William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir, Scotland, and launched on 16 March 1918, christened by Mrs. Frederick Elvy. She was completed on 21 June 1918 and commissioned into service.
Vanessa saw service in the last months of World War I, which ended with the armistice with Germany on 11 November 1918. She remained in service for a time thereafter, but was decommissioned in December 1921 and placed in reserve at Rosyth Scotland.
Vanessa was recommissioned in 1939, and after the United Kingdom entered World War II in September 1939 was assigned to the 17th Destroyer Flotilla at Plymouth for convoy escort and patrol duties in the English Channel and the Southwestern Approaches. She performed her first escort duty when she joined the destroyers HMS Vivacious (D36), HMS Wakeful (H88), and HMS Vanquisher (D54) in escorting Convoy GC from the River Clyde. She continued on such duties in the Western Approaches for the rest of 1939 and in the Southwestern Approaches and English Channel from January to July 1940, but took no part in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France. She and the destroyer HMS Gallant (H59) were escorting Convoy CW 6 in the English Channel on 13 July 1940 when it came under German air attack shortly after leaving Dover, and a bomb which landed in the water six yards (5.5 meters) astern of Vanessa knocked her propellers out of service. The destroyer HMS Griffin (H31) towed her to port. Vanessa underwent repairs at Chatham Dockyard which were not completed until 4 November 1940.
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