| Name: | VERDUN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 13/01/1917 |
| Launched: | 21/08/1917 |
| Completed: | 03/11/1917 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 493 |
| Dimensions: | 1090disp - 1480disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 12pdr, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 3 x 21ins torpedoes; |
| (1939: 2 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 03/11/1917 | British Royal Navy |
| 03/1946 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty V/W Class |
| 1939: Converted into an air defence escort | |
| 03/1946: Sold for breaking up at Granton |
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