HMS Velox (D34)

	HMS Velox, 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Velox
Builder	Doxford, Pallion
Laid down	January 1917
Launched	17 November 1917
Commissioned	1 April 1918
Fate	Broken up 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement	1,272 tons
Length	300 ft (91.4 m)
Beam	26.9 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h)
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/45 Mark V guns, mounting P Mk. I; 2 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II; 2 × twin tubes for 21" torpedoes. Later converted to one twin and one triple tube;

Last updated January 21, 2023

HMS Velox (D34) was a V-class destroyer built in 1918. She served in the last year of the First World War and was engaged in the Second Ostend Raid. During the interwar period she underwent a refit and continued serving during the Second World War as a long range convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic. Post-war Velox was broken up in the reduction of the fleet. Sailors of the ship took part in the Royal Navy mutiny of 1919.^[1]

Bibliography

Notes

↑ Carew 1981, p. 112.

References

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History
HMS Velox, 1944
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Velox
Builder	Doxford, Pallion
Laid down	January 1917
Launched	17 November 1917
Commissioned	1 April 1918
Fate	Broken up 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement	1,272 tons
Length	300 ft (91.4 m)
Beam	26.9 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h)
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/45 Mark V guns, mounting P Mk. I 2 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II 2 × twin tubes for 21" torpedoes. Later converted to one twin and one triple tube