U and V class destroyer

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	General Characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,777 tons (standard) 2,508 tons (full load)
Length:	363 ft (110.5 m)
Beam:	35 ft 8 in (10.9 m)
Draught:	10 ft (3 m)
Propulsion:	2 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 40,000 shp
Speed:	37 knots
Range:	4860 nm at 20 knots
Complement:	180 (225 in flotilla leader)
Armament: Original configuration:	4 x QF Mk.XII 4.7 in (120 mm) guns in single mountings CP Mk.XXII 2 x QF 40 mm Bofors guns in twin mount Mk.IV 6 x QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 x twin mounts Mk.V 2 x single mounts Mk.III 2 x quadruple tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX

The U and V class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943. They were constructed in two flotillas, each with names beginning with "U-" or "V-", although there was a return to pre-war practice of naming the designated flotilla leader after a famous naval figure from history, to honour the lost ships Grenville and Hardy. The flotillas were known as the 7th and 8th Emergency Flotilla, respectively.

Contents 1 Notable actions 2 U class 3 V class 4 Bibliography 5 See also

[edit] Notable actions

Three ships, HMS Verulam, Venus and Virago, formed part of the 26th Destroyer Flotilla that ambushed and sank the Japanese cruiser Haguro, off Sumatra.

[edit] U class

• Grenville, leader
• Ulster
• Ulysses
• Undaunted
• Undine
• Urania
• Urchin
• Ursa

[edit] V class

• Hardy; leader, (lost on 30 January 1944)
• Valentine; to Canada as Algonquin
• Venus
• Verulam
• Vigilant
• Virago
• Vixen; to Canada as Sioux
• Volage

[edit] Bibliography

• Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, Maurice Cocker, Ian Allan, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
• Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945, Leo Marriot, Ian Allan, ISBN 0-7110-1817-0
• Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946, Ed. Robert Gardiner, Naval Institute Press, ISBN 0-87021-913-8
• Destroyers of World War II, An International Encyclopedia, M. J. Whiteley, Arms and Armour Press, 1988, ISBN 1-85409-521-8

[edit] See also

• The V and W class destroyers for other ships with "V-" names
• Type 15 frigate a post-war reconstruction of many ships into fast, first-rate anti-submarine frigates

War Emergency Programme destroyers

O and P class | Q and R class | S and T class | U and V class | W and Z class | C classes

List of destroyers of the Royal Navy