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Vivacious

HMS Vivacious

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassV
WarSecond World War
Main guns4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102 mm L/45), mount P Mk.I

Old V-class destroyer of the Harwich force. Attacked Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen in the Channel Dash.

HMS Vivacious Underway. Photo: Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102 mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
  • 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or
  • 1 z QF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
  • 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
BuilderYarrows, Glasgow
Laid downJuly 1916
Launched3 November 1917
Commissioned29 December 1917
Displacement1,272–1,339 tons
Length300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p
Speed34 kt
Complement110

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

3 November 1917

Channel Dash
Survived

11–13 February 1942

Fate

Survived

Sold for scrapping 7 May 1947

Scrapping began 10 September 1948