HMS Viscount (D92)

HMS Viscount (D92)
HMS Viscount sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I92.
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Viscount
Namesakeviscount
Ordered30 June 1916[1] or July 1916[2]
BuilderJohn I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire[3]
Laid down20 December 1916[3]
Launched29 December 1917[3]
Completed4 March 1918[3]
Commissioned4 March 1918[1]
DecommissionedMarch 1945[3]
Identification
MottoNobile qui nobilis ("Handsome is as handsome does")[3]
Honours and
awards
FateSold 20 March 1945[4] for scrapping
BadgeA viscount's coronet proper on a white field[3]
General characteristics
Class and typeV-class destroyer
Displacement1,120 tons standard
Length300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed36-knot (67 km/h)
Range320–370 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)
Complement134
Armament

HMS Viscount was a V-class destroyer (Thornycroft V and W class) of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.

  1. ^ a b uboat.net HMS Viscount (D 92)
  2. ^ a b SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 1914–1919 – in ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Part 2 of 2)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j HMS VISCOUNT (D 92) – V & W-class Destroyer
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b worldnavalships.com HMS Viscount