History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Valkyrie |
Namesake | The valkyries of Norse mythology |
Ordered | July 1916 |
Builder | Denny |
Laid down | 25 May 1916 |
Launched | 13 March 1917 |
Commissioned | 16 June 1917 |
Identification | Pennant number F05/D61 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1936 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty V-class flotilla leader |
Displacement |
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Length | 300 ft (91 m) |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | 3 Yarrow-type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,500 shp (20,500 kW) |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 115 |
Armament |
HMS Valkyrie was a First World War V-class flotilla leader of the Royal Navy. She was one of two destroyers ordered in July 1916 from William Denny & Bros. Ltd shipyard under the 9th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1916–17. She was originally to be called HMS Malcolm but was renamed before being completed. The name Malcolm was later assigned to another destroyer leader.