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|launch=17 Nov, 1917{{Conways1906|p. 83}}
 
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|pend=H.43 (Apr 1918)<br>D.40 (Sep 1918)<br>G.65 (Nov 1918){{DittColl|p. 72}}
 
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She was re-commissioned on 3 May, 1923.  By March 1925, she was with {{UK-DF|1}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 280}}
 
She was re-commissioned on 3 May, 1923.  By March 1925, she was with {{UK-DF|1}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 280}}
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She was commissioned on 6 January, 1926.{{NLJul27|p. 279}}
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''Velox'' was paid off into Dockyard Control on 14 December, 1928.{{NLFeb29|p. 278}}
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She re-commissioned at Chatham on 18 November, 1930 for work with the {{UK-DF|5}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul31|p. 278}}
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Re-commissioned on 11 January, 1933 for work with the {{UK-DF|5}}.{{NLJul34|p. 283}}
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She was re-commissioned in Reserve on 2 October 1934.{{NLOct35|p. 283}}
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Commissioned at Chatham on 16 November 1936 to be transferred to the Reserve Fleet at The Nore.{{NLJul37|p. 283}}
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lawrence D'Oyly Bignell|nick=Lawrence D'O. Bignell|appt=May, 1921<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 855}}|end=14 September, 1922<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lawrence D'Oyly Bignell|nick=Lawrence D'O. Bignell|appt=May, 1921<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 855}}|end=14 September, 1922<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Kenneth Bamford Millar|nick=Kenneth B. Millar|appt=June, 1921<ref>Millar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/290.|D7605045}} f. 305.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 880}}|end=14 July, 1921<ref>Millar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/290.|D7605045}} f. 305.</ref>|note=temporary}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Kenneth Bamford Millar|nick=Kenneth B. Millar|appt=June, 1921<ref>Millar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/290.|D7605045}} f. 305.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 880}}|end=14 July, 1921<ref>Millar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/290.|D7605045}} f. 305.</ref>|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Christopher Hildyard Ringrose|nick=Christopher H. Ringrose|appt=14 September, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 279}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Christopher Hildyard Ringrose|nick=Christopher H. Ringrose|appt=14 September, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 279}}|end=27 August, 1924}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Evelyn Raymond|nick=Hugh E. Raymond|appt=27 August, 1924|end=7 April, 1925}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Evelyn Raymond|nick=Hugh E. Raymond|appt=27 August, 1924|end=7 April, 1925}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ivo Wyndham Laton Frewen-Laton|nick=Ivo W. L. Frewen-Laton|appt=7 April, 1925{{NLApr25|p. 280}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ivo Wyndham Laton Frewen-Laton|nick=Ivo W. L. Frewen-Laton|appt=7 April, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 279}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=14 April, 1927<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=1928<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Geoffrey Bransby O'Brien Harding|nick=Geoffrey B. O'B. Harding|appt=7 December, 1925|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger Prideaux Selby|nick=Roger P. Selby|appt=22 January, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 283}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ivo Wyndham Laton Frewen-Laton|nick=Ivo W. L. Frewen-Laton|appt=January, 1926|end=14 April, 1927}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=14 April, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 279}}<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=1928<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=20 April, 1929<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>|end=29 December, 1930<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William David Gordon Weir|nick=William D. G. Weir|appt=2 April, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 278}}|end=8 May, 1932<ref>Weir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/123/98.|}} f. 98.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger Prideaux Selby|nick=Roger P. Selby|appt=1932<ref>Selby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/21.|D7615819}} f. 21.</ref>|end=14 January, 1933<ref>Selby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/21.|D7615819}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger Prideaux Selby|nick=Roger P. Selby|appt=22 January, 1933<ref>Selby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/21.|D7615819}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJul34|p. 283}}|end=30 July, 1934<ref>Selby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/21.|}}  f. 21.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=James Chaigneau Colvill|nick=James C. Colvill|appt=15 June, 1939<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>|end=29 October, 1940<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=James Chaigneau Colvill|nick=James C. Colvill|appt=15 June, 1939<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>|end=29 October, 1940<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Gregson Roper|nick=Edward G. Roper|appt=28 October, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}|end=26 March, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Baillie Barstow|nick=George B. Barstow|appt=26 March, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}|end=late 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Temporary {{LiCRNVR}}|name=Cedric David Charles Dickens|nick=Cedric D. C. Dickens|appt=25 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}|end=10 March, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Temporary Acting {{LCommRNR}}|name=Kenneth James Webb|nick=Kenneth J. Webb|appt=10 March, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}|end=April, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4260}}{{FC}}}}
 
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Revision as of 11:18, 12 July 2021

H.M.S. Velox (1917)
Pendant Number: H.43 (Apr 1918)
D.40 (Sep 1918)
G.65 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: William Doxford & Sons[2]
Launched: 17 Nov, 1917[3]
Completed: 1 Apr, 1918[4]
Commissioned: 14 Mar, 1918[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Velox was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

There was an earlier destroyer named Velox.

Service

Velox was commissioned on 14 March, 1918[6] and immediately joined the Dover Patrol's Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

She was re-commissioned on 3 May, 1923. By March 1925, she was with First Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[8]

She was commissioned on 6 January, 1926.[9]

Velox was paid off into Dockyard Control on 14 December, 1928.[10]

She re-commissioned at Chatham on 18 November, 1930 for work with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[11]

Re-commissioned on 11 January, 1933 for work with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla.[12]

She was re-commissioned in Reserve on 2 October 1934.[13]

Commissioned at Chatham on 16 November 1936 to be transferred to the Reserve Fleet at The Nore.[14]

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. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 880.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 880.
  7. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1918). p. 14.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 280.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 279.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 278.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 278.
  12. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 283.
  13. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 283.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 283.
  15. Strong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 38.
  16. Strong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 38.
  17. Hamond Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/45/170. f. 174.
  18. The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 923a.
  19. Hamond Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/45/170. f. 174.
  20. The Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 923a.
  21. Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 80.
  22. Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 80.
  23. Williamson-Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/34. f. 388.
  24. The Navy List. (November, 1919). p. 924.
  25. Williamson-Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/34. f. 388.
  26. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  27. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 880.
  28. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  29. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  30. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 855.
  31. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  32. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  33. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 880.
  34. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  35. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 279.
  36. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 279.
  37. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 279.
  38. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  39. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  40. Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  41. Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  42. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 278.
  43. Weir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/98. f. 98.
  44. Selby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/21. f. 21.
  45. Selby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/21. f. ?.
  46. Selby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/21. f. ?.
  47. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 283.
  48. Selby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/21. f. 21.
  49. Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  50. Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  51. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  52. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  53. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  54. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  55. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  56. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  57. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  58. Uboat.net page on the ship.

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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