&sq=Yale School of Management&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Viscount_FL21150.jpg) HMS Viscount sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I92.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Viscount |
| Namesake | viscount |
| Ordered | 30 June 1916[4] or July 1916[3] |
| Builder | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire[1] |
| Laid down | 20 December 1916[1] |
| Launched | 29 December 1917[1] |
| Completed | 4 March 1918[1] |
| Commissioned | 4 March 1918[4] |
| Decommissioned | March 1945[1] |
| Identification | |
| Motto | Nobile qui nobilis ("Handsome is as handsome does")[1] |
| Honours and awards | |
| Fate | Sold 20 March 1945[5] for scrapping |
| Badge | A viscount's coronet proper on a white field[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | V-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,120 tons standard |
| Length | 300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Propulsion | 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp |
| Speed | 36-knot (67 km/h) |
| Range | 320–370 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) |
| Complement | 134 |
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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.
- ^ a b uboat.net HMS Viscount (D 92)
- ^ 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.
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