HMS Vectis (D51)
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HMS Vectis in 1918.
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| Name: | HMS Vectis |
| Namesake: | Vectis, the ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight |
| Ordered: | July 1916 |
| Builder: | J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Launched: | 4 September 1917 |
| Completed: | 5 December 1917 |
| Fate: | Transferred for scrapping 25 August 1936 |
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| 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: D51 |
HMS Vectis (D51) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and the Russian Civil War.
Vectis, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in July 1916. She was laid down by J. Samuel White at Cowes, Isle of Wight and launched on 4 September 1917. She was completed on 5 December 1917.
V- and W-class destroyers like Vectis were assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich Force for the rest of World War I.
In early June 1918, Vectis conducted towing trials with the NS-class airship N.S.3 to see if an airship which ran out of fuel or suffered a mechanical breakdown could be towed at speed by a ship at sea. Although initial trials were successful, with Vectis reaching nearly 20 knots with N.S.3 in tow, N.S.3 touched down on the sea on the final run.
After the armistice with Germany of 11 November 1918 brought World War I to an end, Vectis was incorporated into a new 3rd Destroyer Division, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, in the spring of 1919. With the new formation, she took part during 1919 in the British campaign in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War.
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