&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Viceroy_FL5440.jpg) HMS Viceroy during World War II.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Viceroy |
| Namesake | viceroy |
| Ordered | 30 June 1916[3] 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[3] |
| Decommissioned | mid-1930s[2][4] |
| Identification |
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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[1] 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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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.
- ^ a b uboat.net HMS Viceroy (L 21)
- ^ A photograph at maritimequest.com HMS Viceroy D-91 / L-21 shows sailors posing aboard HMS Viceroy during a visit to Swinemünde, Germany, on 22 June 1934, strongly suggesting that she was decommissioned and placed in reserve in the 1930s.
- ^ Colledge, J. J., Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy From the Fifteenth Century to the Present, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-652-X, p. 367.