HMS Verdun underway during the Second World War |
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| Career | |
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| Class and type: | Admiralty V class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Verdun |
| Ordered: | 1916-17 |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 13 January 1917 |
| Launched: | 21 August 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 1917 |
| In service: | Converted to long-range escort between 1939-1940 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in April 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,272-1,339 tons |
| Length: | 300 ft o/a, 312 ft p/p |
| Beam: | 26 ft 9 in |
| Draught: | 9 ft standard, 11 ft 3 in 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 |
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| Motto: | On ne passe pas: 'They shall not pass' |
| Honours and awards: | NORTH SEA 1940-45 ARCTIC 1942 |
| Badge: | On a Field Field Paly, of three Blue, White and Red, a tower Gold. |
HMS Verdun was an Admiralty V destroyer of the Royal Navy which saw service in the First and Second World Wars. So far she has been the only ship of the navy to bear the name Verdun, after the Battle of Verdun. She was assigned to carry the remains of The Unknown Warrior home to Britain on 8 November 1920.
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Verdun underwent a conversion to a long range escort at the start of the war, having her pennant number changed from D93 to L93 on its completion in May 1940. She operated as a convoy escort out of Rosyth and in the North Sea, being damaged by a bomb on 1 November 1940 that killed 11 men including her captain. She was repaired at Harwich and spent the rest of the war escorting convoys along the east coast, occasionally supporting the Arctic convoys as well. She survived the war and was placed in reserve, before being sold for scrapping in April 1946.
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