Built as a destroyer under yard No462 by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
30 June 1916 ordered.
20 September 1916 keel laid down.
14 June 1917 launched as the HMS VANOC (H33), named after one of the knights of King Arthur, she was also the lead ship of the V&W class destroyers.
Displacement 1,272 ton standard and 1,339 ton full load., dim. 95.1 x 9.0m, length bpp. 91.4m.
Powered by Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 34 knots.
Armament 4 – QF 102mm guns, 2 – QF pom-pom 40mm AA guns. 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes.
The VANOC was built to change her within 24 hours in a minelayer, could carry then 60 mines.
Crew 110.
15 August 1917 commissioned.
Of her history between 1917 and 1939 I could not find anything.
August 1939 was she commissioned again and joined the 11th Destroyer Flotilla based at Plymouth in Western Approaches command. Used for convoy escort and anti submarine patrol in the English Channel.
April 1940 transferred to the Home Fleet for operation in Norway.
After the Norway operations used to support the evacuation of troops and civilians from St Nazaire.
July 1940 Transferred to Liverpool for Atlantic convoy escort duties.
04 August rescued 37 survivors from the British ships GOGOVALE and 34 survivors of the KING ALBERT after she were sunk by U-boats in a position 56 59N 17 18 W.
In mid-March 1941 she was assigned to 5th Escort group and was part of the battle for HX 112. During this action she rammed and sank U-100 after detecting her on her primitive radar, and in the same action cooperated with HMS WALKER in the sinking of U-99 under Otto Kretschmer.
Commanded by Lt. Cdr. James Godfrey Wood Deneys from 9 Feb 1939 to 15 Dec 1941. http://uboat.net/allies/commanders/714.html
27 July 1941 she picks up six survivors of the British ship HAWKINGE which was sunk by a U-boat in a position about 800 mile south west of Fastnet.
28 August 1941 she rescued 58 survivors from the British ship OTAIO which was sunk by U-boat in a position 330 mile west by north of Fastnet Rock.
From March, 1942 she joined the Escort Group B-5 team of Havant-class destroyer HMS HAVELOCK, Town-class destroyer CALDWELL, W- class destroyer WALKER, River-class frigate SWALE, and Flower class corvettes PIMPERNEL, GODETIA, SAXIFRAGE, BUTTERCUP and LAVENDER. Escort Group B-5 was reassigned to Caribbean trade convoys from March 1942; and returned to the Mid-Ocean Escort Force a year later to escort Convoy SC-122.
On 16 March 1944 in the Straits of Gibraltar at position 35 55N 05 41W she cooperated with the frigate HMS AFFLECK k and three 3 US Catalina aircraft (VP 63) to sink the submarine U-392 by the use of a hedgehog attack, resulting in 52 dead (all hands) from U-392's crew.
On 21 January 1945 she collided with, and sank, Naval Trawler HMS COMPUTATOR off Normandy. The VANOC was heavily damaged in the collision.
After VE-Day was she paid off and reduced to Reserve status and placed on the Disposal List.
26 July 1945 sold to T.W. Ward for scrapping., June 1946 under tow for demolition she ran aground at Penrhyn and was wrecked.
Later was she salved and broken up at Falmouth.
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Source: Http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... -Vanoc.htm http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5456.html