Name HMS Velox Commissioned 1 April 1918 Displacement 1,272 tons Launched 17 November 1917 Draft 2.7 m | Laid down January 1917 Fate Broken up 1947 Construction started January 1917 Length 91 m Builder William Doxford & Sons | |
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Class and type Admiralty V-class destroyer | ||
HMS Velox (D34) was a V-class destroyer built in 1918. She served in the last year of the First World War and was engaged in the Second Ostend Raid. During the interwar period she underwent a refit and continued serving during the Second World War as a long range convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic. Post-war Velox was broken up in the reduction of the fleet.
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