HMS Vehement (1917)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Vehement
Namesake:
Ordered:	July 1916
Builder:	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland
Laid down:	25 September 1916
Launched:	6 July 1917
Completed:	1917
Identification:	Pennant number: F1A (1917) F12 (January 1918) H2A (April 1918)
Fate:	Sunk 2 August 1918
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
Propulsion:	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed:	34 kt
Range:	320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt
Complement:	110
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 z QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

The first HMS Vehement was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I. She spent her short career in minelaying operations in the North Sea before striking a mine and sinking in 1918.

Vehement was ordered in July 1916. She was laid down on 25 September 1916 by William Denny and Brothers at Dumbarton, Scotland, and, per a British Admiralty order of 12 January 1917, was fitted to carry 60 naval mines. She was launched on 6 July 1917 and was completed later in 1917 and commissioned into service. Her original pennant number, F1A, was changed to F12 in January 1918 and to H2A in June 1918.

Upon completion, V- and W-class destroyers, including Vehement, were assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich ForceVehement herself was assigned to the 20th Destroyer Flotilla in February 1918.

In 1918, the 20th Destroyer Flotilla was engaged in a major British effort to lay minefields in the North Sea to close the Heligoland Bight to passage by German ships and submarines. On 31 May 1918, Vehement put to sea from Immingham with the flotilla to lay mines in the Dogger Bank area. On the night of 4–5 June 1918, the flotilla again deployed from the Humber estuary to mine the same area, bringing the total number of mines laid in the two expeditions to 330.

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