HMS Velox, 1944
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | HMS Velox |
Builder: | Doxford, Pallion |
Laid down: | January 1917 |
Launched: | 17 November 1917 |
Commissioned: | 1 April 1918 |
Fate: | Broken up 1947 |
General characteristics | |
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 |
Armament: |
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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.