HMS Vivacious (D36)

HMS Vivacious during World War II.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Vivacious
Namesake:
Ordered:	30 June 1916
Builder:	Yarrows, Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down:	July 1916
Launched:	3 November 1916
Completed:	December 1917
Commissioned:	29 December 1917
Decommissioned:	mid-1930s
Recommissioned:	August 1939
Decommissioned:	summer 1945
Motto:	Sursum caudus ("Tails up")
Honours and awards:	Battle honours for: Atlantic 1939–1940 Dunkirk 1940 North Sea 1942–1945 Dover Straits 1942 Arctic 1943 English Channel 1943–1944 Normandy 1944
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 7 May 1947 Scrapping began 10 September 1948
Badge:	A gold squirrel on a green 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
Propulsion:	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed:	34 kt
Range:	320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kt, 900 nmi at 32 kt
Complement:	110
Armament:	4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or; 1 z QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
Notes:	Pennant number: D36

HMS Vivacious (D36) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and World War II.

Vivacious, 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 in July 1916 by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Glasgow, Scotland, and launched on 3 November 1916. She was completed in December 1917 and commissioned on 29 December 1917.

Upon completion, Vivacious was fitted for use as a minelayer and entered service with the fleet during the final year of World War I. After the war, she deployed to the Baltic Sea in 1919 to participate in the British campaign there against Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War, seeing action against Russian warships. She later served in the Atlantic Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet until decommissioned and placed in reserve at Rosyth Scotland, in the mid-1930s.

In August 1939, Vivacious was recommissioned with a reserve crew for the review of the Reserve Fleet by King George VI at Weymouth.

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