HMS Venetia (D53)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Venetia |
| Ordered: | 30 June 1916 |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 2 February 1917 |
| Launched: | 29 October 1917 |
| Completed: | 19 December 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 19 December 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920s/1930s? |
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| Recommissioned: | September 1939 |
| Motto: | Volo non fugia ("I fly but do not flee") |
| Honours and awards: |
Battle honour for Atlantic 1939-1940 |
| Fate: | Sunk 19 October 1940 |
| Badge: | A gold winged lion's mask on a blue 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 kt |
| Range: | 320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt |
| Complement: | 110 |
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HMS Venetia (D53) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and World War II.
Venetia was ordered on 30 June 1916 as part of the 9th Order of the 1916-17 Naval Programme. She was laid down on 2 February 1917 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland, and launched on 29 October 1917. She was completed on 19 December 1917 and commissioned into service the same day. Her original pennant number, F9A, was changed to F93 in January 1918 and to F14 in April 1918. It became D53 during the interwar period.
The V- and W-class destroyers, Venetia among them, were assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich Force and saw service in the last year of World War I.
In 1921, as part of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Venetia joined the light cruisers HMS Caledon, Castor, Cordelia, and Curacoa and the destroyers HMS Vanquisher, Vectis, Viceroy, Violent, Viscount, Winchelsea, and Wolfhound in a Baltic cruise. Departing the United Kingdom on 31 August 1921, the ships crossed the North Sea and transited the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal to enter the Baltic, where they called at Danzig in the Free City of Danzig; Memel in the Klaipėda Region; Liepāja, Latvia; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia; Helsinki, Finland; , Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Kristiania, Norway, before crossing the North Sea and ending the voyage at Port Edgar, Scotland, on 15 October 1921.
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