Allied Warships
HMS Venomous (D 75)
Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class
Photograph with thanks to Brian Compston.
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Admiralty Modified W |
| Pennant | D 75 |
| Built by | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered | Jan 1918 |
| Laid down | 31 May 1918 |
| Launched | 21 Dec 1918 |
| Commissioned | 24 Aug 1919 |
| End service | |
| History | Reconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in January 1943. HMS Venomous is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947. |
Commands listed for HMS Venomous (D 75)
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| Commander | From | To | ||
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Donald George Frederick Wyville MacIntyre, RN | 31 Jul 1939 | 8 Jan 1940 | |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. John Edwin Home McBeath, RN | 8 Jan 1940 | 23 Dec 1940 | |
| 3 | Cdr. Harold Pitcairn Henderson, RN | 23 Dec 1940 | 3 Jul 1941 | |
| 4 | Cdr. Hugh William Falcon-Steward, RN | 3 Jul 1941 | Feb 1943 | |
| 5 | Lt.Cdr. David Hugh Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, DSO, DSC, RN | 18 Dec 1942 | 18 Feb 1943 | |
| 6 | Lt. Henry Dumaresq Durell, RN | 18 Feb 1943 | late 1943 | |
| 7 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Arnold Derek Arthur Lawson, RNVR | 1 Aug 1944 | 6 Feb 1945 | |
| 8 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Arthur Guyon Prideaux, RNVR | 6 Feb 1945 | mid 1945 | |
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Noteable events involving Venomous include:
13 Sep 1940
During the night of 13/14 September 1940, the British destroyers HMS Malcolm (Capt. T.E. Halsey, DSO, RN), HMS Wild Swan (Lt.Cdr. C.E.L. Sclater, RN) and HMS Venomous (Lt.Cdr. J.E.H. McBeath, DSO, RN) bombard Boulogne in a sweep along the French coast.
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