As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919
British Navy - Destroyers
5 Admiralty " V " Leaders
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VALENTINE Photo, Seward Weymouth.
2 Cammell Laird: Valentine, Valhalla: 1339 tons.
2 Denny : Valkyrie, Valorous : 1325 tons.
1 White: Vampire: 1316 tons.
- Dimensions: 300 (p.p.), 312 (o.a.) x 29.5 x 9 feet (mean), 11.25 (max.) draught.
- Guns: 4 - 4 inch (Mk. V. DIR. CON.), 1 - 3 inch A.A.
Tubes: 4 - 21 inch in pairs, but Vampire only has 6 - 21 inch in two triples.
- Machinery: Turbines all geared-type. Valentine and Valhalla Parsons, others Brown-Curtis.
Designed S.H.P. 27,000 = 34 kts. 2 screws.
Boilers: Yarrow, except Vampire with White-Forster.
Oil: about 370/320 tons.
- Complement, 115.
General Notes: Emergency War Programme boats. Are exactly the same as the Admiralty V Destroyers, but specially fitted as Leaders. No War Losses.
To distinguish: From Admiralty and Thornycroft V's: high foremast, bridges rather larger, more boats carried abeam of 2nd funnel; searchlight platform between tubes extended to take standard compass. After mast stands against after superstructure.
| |
Began |
Launch |
Comp. |
|
Begun |
Launch. |
Comp. |
| Valentine |
7/8/16 |
24/3/17 |
27/6/17 |
Valorous |
25/5/16 |
8/5/17 |
21/8/17 |
| Valhalla |
8/8/16 |
22/5/17 |
31/7/17 |
Vampire |
10/l0/16 |
21/5/17 |
22/9/17 |
| Valkyrie |
25/5/16 |
12/3/17 |
16/6/17 |
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Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - p 99
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