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HMS Velox, 1944
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| Name: | HMS Velox |
| Builder: | Doxford, Pallion |
| Laid down: | January 1917 |
| Launched: | 17 November 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1 April 1918 |
| Fate: | Broken up 1947 |
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| Class and type: | Admiralty V-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,272 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft (91.4 m) |
| Beam: | 26.9 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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HMS Velox (D34) was a V-class destroyer built in 1918. She served in the last year of the First World War and was engaged in the Second Ostend Raid. During the interwar period she underwent a refit and continued serving during the Second World War as a long range convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic. Post-war Velox was broken up in the reduction of the fleet.