HMS Viceroy (D91)
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Not to be confused with RMS Viceroy of India.
HMS Viceroy (D91) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.
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HMS Viceroy during World War II. | |
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Name | HMS Viceroy |
Namesake | viceroy |
Ordered | 30 June 1916[1] or August 1916[2] |
Builder | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston[2] |
Laid down | 12 December 1916[2] |
Launched | 17 November 1917[2] |
Completed | 14 January 1918[2] |
Commissioned | 18 January 1918[1] |
Decommissioned | mid-1930s[2][3] |
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Recommissioned | January 1941[2] |
Decommissioned | sometime after 15 August 1945[2] |
Motto | In the King's name[2] |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Sold 15 May 1947[5] or June 1948[4] for scrapping |
Badge | The Star of India under a crown proper on a white field[2] |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,120 tons standard |
Length | 300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p |
Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Propulsion | 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp |
Speed | 36-knot (67 km/h) |
Range | 320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h) |
Complement | 134 |
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