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HMS Venomous (D 75)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Modified W class


Photograph with thanks to Brian Compston.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Modified W 
PennantD 75 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
OrderedJan, 1918 
Laid down31 May, 1918 
Launched21 Dec, 1918 
Commissioned24 Aug, 1919 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in January 1943.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Donald George Frederick Wyville MacIntyre, RN
31 July 1939 - 8 January 1940

Lt.Cdr. John Edwin Home McBeath, RN
8 January 1940 - 23 December 1940
DSO awarded on 27 August 1940

Cdr. Harold Pitcairn Henderson, DSO, RN
23 December 1940 - 3 July 1941

Cdr. Hugh William Falcon-Steward, RN
3 July 1941 - February 1943

Lt. Henry Dumaresq Durell, RN
February 1943 - Ca. November / December 1943

HMS Venomous was in Dockyard Control during refit

Lt. Arnold Derek Arthur Lawson, RNVR
1 August 1944 - 6 February 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Arthur Guyon Prideaux, RNVR
6 February 1945 - 31 May 1945

HMS Venomous is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 


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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