HMS Violent (D57)
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| Name: | HMS Violent |
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| Ordered: | July 1916 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear |
| Laid down: | November 1916 |
| Launched: | 1 September 1917 |
| Completed: | November 1917 |
| Identification: | pennant number:D57 |
| Fate: | Transferred for scrapping 8 March 1937 |
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| 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 knots (63 km/h) |
| Range: | 320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 kn (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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HMS Violent was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and was in commission from 1917 to 1937.
Violent, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in July 1916. She was laid down by Swan Hunter at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, in November 1916 and launched on 1 September 1917. She was completed in November 1917.
Violent was assigned to the Grand Fleet or Harwich Force for the rest of World War I. On 19 July 1918, she participated in history's first attack by aircraft launched from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, when she operated in the North Sea in support of a strike by Royal Air Force Sopwith 2F.1 Camel fighters from the aircraft carrier HMS Furious against the Imperial German Navy Zeppelin dirigible sheds at Tondern, Germany (today Tønder, Denmark) in what became known as the Tondern Raid. Returning from the strike, Camel pilot Captain William F. Dickson, who had decided he would not be able to return to Furious, sighted Violent – the first British warship he encountered during his return flight – and circled her before ditching his aircraft in the sea. Violent recovered him, and he went on to become a Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Chief of the Air Staff, and Chief of the Defence Staff.
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