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HMS ''Vanoc'' was a British V-class destroyer, launched in 1917. ==Construction== In mid-1916, the British Admiralty placed orders for 23 destroyers based on the five V-class leaders that had been ordered earlier that year. Two of these ships, ''Vanoc'' and , were ordered from the Clydebank shipyard, John Brown & Company in June that year.〔Raven and Roberts 1979, pp. 5–5.〕〔Preston 1971, pp. 102–103.〕 ''Vanoc'' was long overall with a beam of and a draught of between and depending on load. Displacement was standard〔 and up to under full load.〔Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 83.〕 Three oil-fed Yarrow boilers raising steam at fed Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines which developed , driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of .〔〔Lenton 1970, p. 23.〕 ''Vanoc'' reached an average speed of during sea trials on 10 August 1917, with her engines generating and deep load displacement about .〔Raven and Roberts 1979, p. 5.〕 The ship carried of oil giving a range of at .〔 ''Vanoc''s main gun armament consisted of four 4-inch Mk V QF guns in four single mounts on the ship's centerline. These were disposed as two forward and two aft in superimposed firing positions. A single QF 3-inch (76 mm) 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun was mounted aft of the second funnel. Aft of the 3-inch gun, she carried four 21-inch torpedo tubes mounted in pairs on the center-line.〔〔 It was decided in January 1917 to modify ''Vanoc'' as a minelayer. As such, the aft set of torpedo tubes and one 4 inch gun could be removed to accommodate up to 66 mines, although the rated capacity was 44. The ship could be converted back to a fleet destroyer, with full armament, in about 12 hours.〔Friedman 2009, pp. 154–155.〕〔Preston 1971, p. 25.〕 ''Vanoc'' was laid down at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard on 20 September 1916 and was launched on 14 June 1917.〔Friedman 2009, p. 312.〕 She was commissioned on 15 August 1917 with the pennant number H33.〔Whitley 2000, p. 94.〕 The vessel's name is that of an Arthurian knight in Sir Walter Scott’s ''The Bridal of Triermain''.〔http://gorddcymru.org/twilight/camelot/bruce_dictionary/index_v.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Vanoc (H33)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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