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General characteristics |
| Type: |
Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,777 tons (standard)
2,508 tons (full load)
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| 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
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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.
[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
[edit] V class
[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
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