HMS Verity (D63)

HMS Verity circa 1930
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Verity
Ordered	January 1918
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down	17 May 1918
Launched	19 March 1919
Commissioned	17 September 1919
Refit	Reconstructed to Long Range Escort finished in October 1943
Motto	Prevalebit Truth shall prevail
Honours and awards	Atlantic (1939-45) Dunkirk (1940) North Sea (1940) North Africa (1942–43)
Fate	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947
Badge	On a Field Black, a Roman Lamp Gold
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty modified W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam	29.5 ft (9.0 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m), 11.25 ft (3.43 m) under full load
Propulsion	As built 1920: 3 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp LRE conversion 1943 2 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 24,000 shp
Speed	As built 1920: 32 kn 1943 LRE conversion 24.5 kn
Range	320-370 tons oil 3,500 nmi at 15 kn 900 nmi at 32 kn
Complement	127
Sensors and processing systems	After 1943 LRE conversion: Type 271 target indication radar Type 291 air warning radar
Armament	As built 1920: 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes 1943 LRE conversion: 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA gun 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 2 × 20mm Oerlikon cannons 3 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (triple mount) 2 × depth charge racks Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar

HMS Verity was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the first ship to carry the name Verity. She was ordered in January 1918 from John Brown & Company of Clydebank with the 13th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1918–19.