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	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Admiralty V & W class Destroyers
		The Admiralty V & W class destroyer HMS Woolston.
		As the war progressed their fleet duties were taken over by new, more modern destroyers and they were only used as convoy escorts.
		In the early stages of the war some of the V&W class destoyers were slightly modified to suit them more to their role as convoy escorts.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=23 (501 words)

	Encyclopedia: Destroyer
		In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Destroyer (617 words)

	Encyclopedia: W class destroyer
		Two classes of destroyers of the Royal Navy are known as the W class:
		From 1938-39 several V&W Class Destroyers were taken in hand for re-armament as anti-aircraft escort destroyers, their six 21" torpedo tubes being removed and the four single 4" low-angled guns replaced by two 4" high-angled guns with a modern AA director.
		The destroyer was towed to Dunkirk, where she was docked for emergency repairs; on 20th May the Westminster was towed to Dover, where she arrived early on the 21st.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/W-class-destroyer (290 words)

	Town class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Town class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940.
		Roughly contemporaneous to the British V and W class destroyers they were not much liked by their new crews.
		On the Wickes class, the placement was one gun in a shield on the forecastle, one on the quarterdeck and one each side on wings roughly abeam of the forward funnel.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Town_class_destroyers (1615 words)

	Destroyer
		Destroyers were involved in the skirmishes that prompted the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and filled a range of roles in the Battle of Gallipoli, acting as troops transports and fire support vessels, as well as their fleet-screening role.
		By this time the destroyers had become large, multi-purpose vessels, expensive targets in their own right rather than expendable vessels for the protection of others; moreover, they were one of the most sunk kinds of ships even though they were mass produced.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.artistopia.com /destroyer (3807 words)

	W (letter) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about W (letter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It appeared in the 11th century to differentiate from v.
		Some scholars think that the Latin v, representing the consonant v and the vowel u, was pronounced like the modern English /w/.
		In Welsh names w is generally a vowel, as in Betws-y-Coed and Braich-y-pwll.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /W+(letter) (205 words)

	Destroyer: Encyclopedia II - Destroyer - Genesis of the destroyer
		The destroyer originated in Britain and Japan in the last years of the 1880s, and became firmly established after the Chilean Civil War of 1891 and in the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895).
		However the destroyers had the problem of needing to operate as a screen for the fleet.
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
	www.globaloneness.com /a/Destroyer_-_Genesis_of_the_destroyer/id/1288653 (995 words)

	List of destroyer classes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		B class - surviving 4 funnelled 30 knot destroyers
		C class - surviving 3 funnelled 30 knot destroyers
		D class - surviving 2 funnelled 30 knot destroyers
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_destroyer_classes (365 words)

	World War II Online HQ
		Their light guns enabled them to engage other destroyers attacking their fleet, however in addition they were armed with torpedoes to engage any and all surface ships, including battleships.
		The next class of destroyers were a repeat of the 'J' Class, The eight 'K' Class, of which the Kelly would in due course become the most famous.
		Destroyers saw much patrol work in the early months of the war, however their first taste of real action was in the Norwegian campaign in the spring of 1940, when the Home Fleet covered first the Anglo-French force's landing, and then its withdrawal.
	www.hq.wwiionline.com /profiles/javelin.shtml (1394 words)

	HMS Versatile 1939 V & W Class DD - Skytrex 1/350
		At the time of writing the V&W class destroyer kit is so recent as not to have made it into the Skytrex catalogue.
		Depicting a pre-WWII version of this famous class of RN destroyers, the actual model purports to be HMS Versatile and is one of four V&W models, the others being a WAIR (AA Escort), Short Range Escort (1943) and the Long Range Escort (1943).
		On my scale ruler the hull measures at 315' (loa) and 28' beam which is slightly longer than the class design of 312' but almost bang-on for the beam.
	www.smmlonline.com /reviews/models/v_w/vwskytrex350.html (454 words)

	STAR WARS: Star Destroyers
		The hull number of the star destroyer Entor (CVS 1049) indicates either that in excess of a thousand star destroyers of this class have been built, or that this is the 1049th built by its particular shipyard.
		The destroyer was fine, and its crew apparently comfortable, until the differential of gravitational forces across the ship's length exceeded some millions of G, when the ship disintegrated suddenly.
		A single star destroyer is known to have sufficient firepower to reduce the surface of a habitable planet to molten slag.
	www.theforce.net /swtc/isd.html (10520 words)

	Avalanche Press
		They were called “flush-deck” because, in contrast to the all of the preceding classes of American destroyers with a raised foredeck foreward of the bridge, their weather decks were all on the same level, flush with one another.
		The fleet destroyer was responsible for scouting and screening the battleline, protecting it from torpedo attacks by enemy destroyers and small craft — like their old nemesis, the torpedo boat — and, perhaps most importantly, fighting submarines and aircraft.
		There is much more detail to be had on the Town class and their service in the war, so tune in next time for a full listing of the names of all Town-class ships, their dates of service and notable actions fought, and SWWAS counters and ship data sheets.
	avalanchepress.com /Town-Class.php (1240 words)

	(1936 - 1958) U & V Class
		One U Class submarine that is famous for the part it played during the Second World War is the Vickers-built Upholder, which probably had the finest fighting record of any Allied submarine of the period.
		The resultant V Class were slightly longer than the U boats and, because of a partly-welded pressure hull, had a greater operational depth - 300 feet as opposed to 200 feet.
		None of the 22 V Class submarines built were lost during the war, and the lead ship, HMS Venturer, distinguished herself by sinking two German submarines, one in November 1944, the other in February 1945.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Boats/Barrowbuilt/UV_Class (1332 words)

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		Destroyer HMS Grenade whilst alongside the east mole at Dunkirk is damaged and disabled by aircraft attacks.
		The destroyer is abandoned and her burning hull towed clear of the main channel.
		Destroyer HMS Hereward is hit in an air attack 5 miles south of Crete at 35 20N 26 20E It is decided to leave her on her own rather than delay the rest of the force, and Hereward is last seen heading slowly towards Crete shrouded in smoke.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/29May.txt (2067 words)

	vega
		Launched late in World War I, V and W (all class members had names beginning with “V” or “W”) class ships were the most powerfully armed and seaworthy destroyers of their time.
		I suspect that many modelers would prefer to build their V and W in a WW2 fit, especially those of you partial to Western Approaches paint schemes.
		Modifying this kit to a WW2 V and W should be very easy, mainly a matter of substituting weaponry and performing minor bridge alterations.
	www.steelnavy.com /vega.htm (756 words)

	Loss of HMS Glorious
		ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
		Destroyers were on 3.7 MHz from 0400 on the 8th.
		The failure of the destroyers to send enemy reports is inexplicable.The destroyer Glowworm, sunk after an unexpected encounter with the German cruiser Hipper the previous April, had followed the initial sighting report with further transmissions until her W/T equipment was disabled.
	www.warship.org /no11994.htm (4932 words)

	Destroyer: Encyclopedia II - Destroyer - World War I
		Torpedo Boat destroyers grew in size and effectiveness in the early part of the 20th century.
		This led to an equally rapid destroyer evolution during the war, which was quickly equipped with depth charges and sonar for countering this new threat.
		At the end of the war the state of the art was represented by the British V and W class destroyer.
	www.globaloneness.com /a/Destroyer_-_World_War_I/id/1288654 (398 words)

	USS Heywood L. Edwards (DD-663) — Ship's Diary
		Destroyer Norman Scott (DD 690) relieved HLE for shore bombardment and just as HLE was leaving Norman Scott was hit by shore batteries with ten being killed and 47 wounded.
		At about 1600 hours HLE and her companion destroyer Picking (DD 685) in the area, were told to fire on the Longshaw to destroy her thus preventing the enemy from removing any equipment or classified items from the vessel.
		Some of their guns were replaced from other destroyers that were being cannibalized providing replacement parts for other destroyers.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussheywoodledwards/663diary.html (7695 words)

	British 4.7"/45 (12 cm) BL Mark I and Mark II
		This weapon was hurriedly designed late in World War I as a response to reports that the Germans were arming their new destroyers with heavier guns than the 10.5 cm (4.1") previously used.
		The British program thus gave the Royal Navy some of the most powerful destroyers in the world at the end of World War I. The mountings for these guns can be distinguished from later 4.7" (12 cm) QF mountings by their abbreviated shields, which offered little protection to their gun crews' legs.
		Note: Many older destroyers were converted to long-range convoy escorts during World War II and had two or more guns removed in order to fit them with additional fuel tanks and ASW equipment.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_47-45_mk1.htm (598 words)

	Shakespeare Class Destroyer
		The class originally numbered seven but of these, Saunders and Spragge were cancelled in January 1919 and work stopped on Keppel and Rooke.
		Early in 1939, Wallace was converted to an escort destroyer more or less on the lines of the V and W Wair conversions.
		Keppel served with the 13th Destroyer Flotilla and Force H at Gibraltar and in the Mediterranean 1940 42, but acted as escort in between to some Atlantic and Russian convoys, in particular PQ17, when she was leader of the close escort.
	www.world-war.co.uk /destroyers/shakespeare.html (759 words)

	The Ordeal of TALTHYBIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abaft of that was more superstructure carrying the accommodation for second class passengers, beneath which was the boiler room and aft of that the engine room.
		One was that there were fewer and fewer ships to be seen in the port; none stayed alongside over night, and when they sailed they were crowded with civilians making their way south or west.
		Orders had been received that she was to rendezvous with a harbour tug outside the breakwater; the tug would have the disabled Australian destroyer VENDETTA in tow and she would pass the towline over to the PING WO for the passage to Fremantle.
	www.greentrails.ca /empressofasia/ordeal (4384 words)

	informationsphere.com: Destroyer
		Destroyers primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers are multi-mission (ASW, anti-air and anti-surface warfare) surface combatants.
		The Spruance-class destroyers, the first large U.S. Navy warships to employ gas turbine engines as their main propulsion system, are undergoing extensive modernizing.
		Spruance-class destroyers are expected to remain a major part of the Navy's surface combatant force into the 21st century.
	www.informationsphere.com /html/2786.htm (345 words)

	7 Squadron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the war progressed their fleet duties were taken over by new, more modern destroyers and they were only used as convoy escorts.
		In 1937 the Admiralty recognized the need for ships with a good long-range anti-aircraft armament and it was decided that a number of the old VandW-class destroyers were to be converted to fast escorts.
		On 29 Mau 1940 she had just taken on between 600 and 700 evacuees, when she was torpedoed by a German destroyer.
	www.basher82.nl /searchUKhmswakeful.htm (160 words)

	V and W class destroyer - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Image:HMS Wolverine (D78).jpg The V and W class was an amalgam of very similar oil-fueled destroyer classes built around the end of the First World War for the Royal Navy.
		The V and W class design formed the basis for most destroyers in the interwar period
		The shortcomings of the design for that purpose were recognised and a number of ships were converted to escort destroyers.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/V_class (364 words)

	DDG-51 ARLEIGH BURKE-class - Navy Ships
		Congress appropriated $3.6 billion for construction of 4 new destroyers in fiscal year 1997 and gave the Navy authority to procure a total of 12 destroyers in fiscal years 1998 through 2001 using a multiyear acquisition strategy.
		The Navy appeared to be willing to pay this premium in an attempt to partially accommodate the destroyer industrial base potential problems (three destroyers per year are required to maintain the industrial base) caused by delaying DD 21 one year.
		Class changes in production Flight IIA critical to littoral warfighting effectiveness include the incorporation of embarked helicopters (SH-60R), an organic minehunting capability and the introduction of area theater ballistic missile defense capability to protect near coastal air-fields and seaports essential to the flow of forces into theater in time of conflict.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/ddg-51.htm (8886 words)

	List of destroyer classes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		KDX II class — 4 ships + 2 ships under construction
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about List of destroyer classes contains research on
		List of destroyer classes, Australia (RAN), Canada (Canadian Forces Maritime Command), China (PLAN), France (Marine Nationale), Germany (Deutsche Marine), Netherlands (Koninklijke Marine), India, Italy (Marina Militare), Japan (Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force), Poland, Portugal Navy, Spain (Armada Espanola), South Korea, Russia/USSR, Taiwan (ROCN), Turkey, United Kingdom (Royal Navy), United States (USN) and Ship classes.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/List_of_destroyers (390 words)

	USS Morris (DD-417), Sims-class destroyer war history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this engagement Morris destroyed six enemy aircraft to establish a gunnery record among destroyers in the South Pacific theater, having then destroyed a total of eight Japanese planes, and once again she performed valorous services in rescue operations when she came alongside the sinking Hornet (CV8).
		Although ammunition aboard the damaged carrier was exploding fiercely and she was being subjected to vicious dive bomb attacks by numerous Japanese planes, Morris rescued 550 survivors before leaving the area.
		Needless to say, in each of these wholesale rescues the addition of over 500 men to the destroyer’s normal complement created a problem in management that had to be solved if the ship was to carry out her primary function as a fighting unit in enemy water.
	www.greatunclebill.com /morris2.htm (2701 words)

	British 4"/45 (10.2 cm) QF Mark V and Mark XV
		The original Mark V was constructed of a tapered inner A tube, A tube, taper wound wire, full-length jacket and breech ring.
		Two Mark V guns were modified to use this breech mechanism and these were used in the prototype of the between decks (BD) twin mounting which was installed on HMS Resolution for trials in 1931.
		The Mark IV was used mainly on "Country" class cruisers and had an improved pneumatic run-out cylinder, also known as a "recuperator," and a mechanical fuze-setting machine on the left side.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_4-45_mk5.htm (1272 words)

	HMAS VAMPIRE (I) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		It had been intended to base the destroyers at Singapore for a period of training but, whilst the Flotilla was still at sea, it was decided that after a brief stop at Singapore it should proceed to the Mediterranean.
		Nevertheless, the Australian destroyers were kept busy with their routine of escort and patrol work, singly and in pairs, which took them from end to end of the Mediterranean.
		On 26 January she was ordered to proceed with the destroyer HMS THANET to attack Japanese transports reported to be lying off Endau some 80 miles north of Singapore.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/vampire1.html (5657 words)

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