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Leaders
Admiralty Large Design
Thornycroft Type
Admiralty "V" Leaders
Marksmen (later) Type
Marksmen Type
White Boats
Special Boat (Swift)
Destroyers
Admiralty "V" (Post War)
Yarrow "S"
Thorneycroft "S"
Admiralty "S"
Thorneycroft "V" (6 Tube)
Admiralty "V" (6 Tube)
Thorneycroft "V"
Admiralty "V"
Yarrow "Later M"
Thornycroft "R"
Admiralty Mod "R"
Admiralty "R"
Admiralty "M"
Thornycroft "M"
Hawthorn "M"
Yarrow "M"
Ex-Turkish
Ex-Greek
"L" Class
"K" Class
"I" Class
"H" Class
"G" Class
 
As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919
 
21 Admiralty "V" Class Destroyers


————————Minelayer.

3 Beardmore: Vancouver, Vanessa, Vanity.

2 Clydebank: Vanoc,* Vanquisher.*

1 Denny: Venturous.*

2 Doxford: Vega, Velex.

2 Fairfield: Vendetta, Venetia.

2 Hawthorn Leslie: Verdun, Versatile.

3 Stephen: Vesper, Vidette, Voyager.

2 Swan Hunter : Violent, Vimiera.

2 White: Vectis, Vortigern.

2 Farrow: Vivacious, Vivien.

* Minelayers.
  • Displacements: 1272-1339 tons (1300 average).
  • Dimensions: 300 (p.p.), 312 (o.a.) x 29' 6" x 9 feet (mean), 11' 9" (max.) draught.
  • Guns: 4-4 inch (Mk. V. DIR. CON.), 1-3 inch AA. Torpedo tubes: 4-21 inch in pairs.
  • Machinery: "All-Geared" turbines: Brown-Curtis in all, except Doxford and Swan Hunter boats with Parsons. 2 screws. Designed S.H.P. 27,000 = 34 kts. Boilers: Yarrow in all, except White boats with White-Forster. Oil: about 370/320 tons.
  • Complement, 110.
  • Trials: Vivacious 3301, Vivien 36.79.

General Notes.-All Emergency War Programme. These boats are of remarkable size and power for Destroyers; in fact, five of them, with slight modifications. have been converted to Flotilla Leaders,

To distinguish.-From " W " type, no triple tubes; mainmast short. From " V Leaders " foremast shorter, forebridges different, no extension to S.L. platform for standard compass, mainmast away from after superstructure, fewer boats.

  Begun Launch. Comp
Vancouver 15/3/17 28/12/17 9/3/18
Vanessa 16/5/17 16/3/18 27/4118
Vanity 28/7/18 3/5/18 21/6/18
Vanoc 20/9/16 14/6/17 8/17
Vanquisher 27/9/16 18/8/17 9/17
Venturous 9/10/16 21/9/17 29/11/17
Vega ........ 1/9/17 12/17
Velox ........ 17/11/17 1/4/18

Vendetta

...... 3/9/17 17/10/17
Venetia 29/10/17 19/12/17
Verdun 13/1/17 21/8/17 3/11/17
Versatile 31/1/17 31/10/17 11/2/18
Vesper 27/12/16 15/12/17 20/2/18
Vidette 1/2/17 28/2/18 27/4/18
Voyager 17/5/17 24/6/18 24/6/18
Violent 11/16 1/9/17 11/17
Vimiera 10/16 22/6/17 9/17
Vectis 7/12/17 4/9/17 5/12/17
Vortigern 17/1/16 15/10/17 25/1/18
Vivacious 7/16 3/11/17 12/17
Vivien 7/16 16/2/18 28/5/18

War Losses: Vehement (Denny).   Verulam (Hawthorn Leslie) and Vittoria (Swan Hunter) lost 1919 in Baltic operations.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - p 105

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