| Name: | VIMIERA |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 23/10/1916 |
| Launched: | 22/06/1917 |
| Completed: | 19/09/1917 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1043 |
| Dimensions: | 1090disp - 1480disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 3.0ins QF guns, 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| (1939: 2 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 19/09/1917 | British Royal Navy |
| 09/01/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty V/W Class of destroyers |
| 1939: Converted into an air defence escort vessel | |
| 09/01/1942: Sunk by mine off the East Spile Buoy in the Thames Estuary | |
| 96 of the 110 crew died |
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