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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]

HMS Velox, 1944
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Velox
BuilderDoxford, Pallion
Laid downJanuary 1917
Launched17 November 1917
Commissioned1 April 1918
FateBroken up 1947
General characteristics
Class and typeAdmiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement1,272 tons
Length300 ft (91.4 m)
Beam26.9 ft (8.2 m)
Draught9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed34 knots (63 km/h)
Complement110
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

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Notes

  1. Carew 1981, p. 112.

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