VERDUN HMS (L93) destroyer

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VERDUN HMS (L93) destroyer

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:15 pm

Built as a destroyer by Hawthorn Leslie for the Royal Navy.
13 Jan. 1917 keel laid down, 21 Aug. 1917 launched under the name HMS VERDUN. (L93) One of the V Class.
Displacement 1.188 tons standard, 1.490 tons full load. Dim. 312 x 29.6 x 9ft. (draught), maximum draught 11.9 ft.
Powered by two sets Brown Curtis geared turbines, 27.000 shp. Twin screws, speed 34 knots. Steam supplied by 3 Yarrow boilers.
Range 3.500 nm at 15 knots. Bunker capacity 367 tons.
Armament 4 – 4 inch, 1 – 3 inch AA. Torpedo tubes 4 – 21 inch in pairs.
Crew around 110.
03 Nov. 1917 commissioned.

Used for escort duties during World War I.
Carried the coffin with the ‘Unknown Soldier’ from France to Dover escorted by six warships in November 1920.
Most vessels of this class had three major conversions between the wars.
Armament during World War II, 4 – 4inch AA. 8 – 0.5 inch MG (2 x 4).
When war broke out she was to old for fleet duties and transformed in anti-aircraft escort.
Radar was fitted as soon as it came available.
In that time she was mostly used on the east coast of Great Britain for convoy escort duty.

04 March 1947 sold for scrap to British Iron and Steel Corporation, and broken up by Brechin at Granton on Spey.

Sierra Leone 2001 1100Le sg?, scott? (Wrongly given on the stamp as VERDUM.)

Sources; Jane’s 1919. Destroyers of World War Two by M.J.Whitley. http://www.warships.net/royalnavy/rnshi ... eclass.htm
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