HMS Venomous (D75)

HMS Venomous ca. 1919, when her pennant number was G98
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Venom
Ordered:	January 1918
Builder:	John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Renamed:	HMS Venomous, 24 April 1919
Launched:	21 December 1918
Completed:	24 August 1919
Commissioned:	24 August 1919
Decommissioned:	1929
Recommissioned:	October 1938
Decommissioned:	Late 1938?
Recommissioned:	Summer 1939
Decommissioned:	First half of 1944
Recommissioned:	August 1944
Decommissioned:	1945
Motto:	Hostibus nocens amiscis innoncens (Latin: "Deadly to foes, harmless to friends")
Honours and awards:	Battle honours for: Atlantic 1940-1943 Dunkirk 1940 Arctic 1942 Malta Convoys 1942 North Africa 1942 Sicily 1943
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 4 March 1947
Badge:	A gold goblet with two intertwined green snakes on a black field
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full
Length:	300 ft (91 m) o/a 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam:	29.5 feet (9.0 m)
Draught:	9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.43 m) under full load
Installed power:	27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion:	Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts
Speed:	34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range:	320–370 tons oil 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) 900 nmi (1,700 km; 1,000 mi) at 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement:	127
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 286M air warning radar fitted 1940 Type 271 surface warning radar fitted 1940
Armament:	As built 1920: 4 × BL 4.7 in (119 mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1940 SRE conversion: 3 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk.I L/45 guns 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA gun 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (one triple mount) 2 × depth charge racks Twin 6-pounder army gun (1942 – replaced ‘A’ gun)

HMS Venomous (ex-Venom), was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Russian Civil War and World War II.

Venom, the second Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in January 1918 as part of the 10th Order of the 1918-19 Naval Programme. She was laid down on 31 May 1918 by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on 21 December 1918. She was renamed Venomous, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, on 24 April 1919 to avoid confusion with the Royal Navy's torpedo school, HMS Vernon. She was completed on 24 August 1919 and commissioned into service the same day. Her original pennant number, G98, assigned in June 1919, was changed to D75 during the interwar period.

Venomous was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet. During the winter of 1919-1920, she made several cruises in the Baltic Sea, participating in the British campaign against Bolshevik and German forces in Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. In 1920, she conducted patrols to prevent smugglers from bringing guns into Ireland, and her crew took part in preventing a coal strike from paralysing the British economy.