HMS Vesper (D55)
HMS Vesper during World War II.
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| Name: | HMS Vesper |
| Ordered: | 30 June 1916 |
| Builder: | Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 7 December 1916 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1917 |
| Completed: | 20 February 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 20 February 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920s (?) |
| Recommissioned: | 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | mid-1945 |
| Motto: | Nescis quod vesper vehat ("You know not what the evening brings forth") |
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| Badge: | A silver star 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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| Notes: | Pennant number: D55 |
HMS Vesper was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and World War II.
Vesper, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered on 30 June 1916 as part of the 9th Order of the 1916-17 Naval Programme. She was laid down on 7 December 1916 by Stephen's of Govan, Glasgow, and launched on 15 December 1917. She was completed on 20 February 1918.
Vesper joined the fleet for service during World War I, and remained in service after the 11 November 1918 Armistice with Germany that ended the war, but later was decommissioned and placed in reserve.
Vesper was recommissioned in 1939. After the United Kingdom entered World War II in September 1939, she was assigned to convoy defence and patrol duties in the Southwestern Approaches through December 1939. From January through April 1940, she performed similar duties in the English Channel and North Sea. On 14 February 1940 she and the destroyer HMS Whitshed rescued 72 survivors of the British merchant ship Sultan Star, which the German submarine U-77 had sunk southwest of the Scilly Isles at position 48°54′00″N 010°03′00″W / 48.90000°N 10.05000°W.
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