HMS Venomous ca. 1919, when her pennant number was G98
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Venom |
Ordered | January 1918[1] |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland[2] |
Renamed | HMS Venomous, 24 April 1919[3] |
Launched | 21 December 1918[2] |
Completed | 24 August 1919[2] |
Commissioned | 24 August 1919[1] |
Decommissioned | 1929[4] |
Recommissioned | October 1938[4] |
Decommissioned | Late 1938?[4] |
Recommissioned | Summer 1939[4] |
Decommissioned | First half of 1944[2] |
Recommissioned | August 1944[2] |
Decommissioned | 1945[2] |
Motto | Hostibus nocens amicis innocens (Latin: "Deadly to foes, harmless to friends")[2] |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 4 March 1947[2] |
Badge | A gold goblet with two intertwined green snakes on a black field[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full |
Length | |
Beam | 29.5 feet (9.0 m) |
Draught | 9 feet (2.7 m), 11.25 feet (3.43 m) under full load |
Installed power | 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) |
Propulsion | Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts |
Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range |
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Complement | 127 |
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HMS Venomous (ex-Venom), was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Russian Civil War and World War II.