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==Service==
==Service==
''Verdun'' was commissioned on 16 October, 1917{{NLJan21|p. 881.  I am presuming the 1919 year given is a typo}} and was assigned to the {{UK-DF|13}} that same month.{{SMNLOct17|p. 12}}
''Verdun'' was completed/commissioned on either 16 October, 1917{{NLJan21|p. 881.  I am presuming the 1919 year given is a typo}} or 3 November.{FriedmanBritishDestroyers|p. 312}}
 
She was assigned to the {{UK-DF|13}} in October.{{SMNLOct17|p. 12}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 18:32, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Verdun (1917)
Pendant Number: F.2A (1917)
F.91 (Jan 1918)
F.16 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 21 Aug, 1917[3]
Commissioned: 16 Oct, 1917[4]
Sold:

H.M.S. Verdun was one of twenty-five destroyers of the "V" class.

Service

Verdun was completed/commissioned on either 16 October, 1917[5] or 3 November.{FriedmanBritishDestroyers|p. 312}}

She was assigned to the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla in October.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 881. I am presuming the 1919 year given is a typo.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 881. I am presuming the 1919 year given is a typo.
  6. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (October, 1917). p. 12.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 925a.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 881.

Bibliography


"V" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Vancouver Vanessa Vanity Vanquisher Vanoc
Vega Velox Vehement Venturous Vendetta
Venetia Verdun Versatile Verulam Vesper
  Vidette Violent Vimiera Vittoria  
  Vivacious Vivien Vortigern Vectis  
Thornycroft Specials
  Viceroy Viscount  
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