HMS Vanity (D28)
The second HMS ''Vanity'' was a V and W class destroyer, V-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during World War I that saw service in World War II. Description The V-class destroyers were improved versions of the Admiralty V-class flotilla leaders built because the Admiralty (United Kingdom), Admiralty had received reports that the Imperial German Navy was building large destroyers. They displaced at Displacement (ship), light load and at deep load. The ships had an length overall, overall length of , a beam (nautical), beam of and a draft (hull), draught of . ''Vanity'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft using steam provided by three Yarrow boilers. The turbines developed a total of and gave a maximum speed of .Preston 1985, p. 83 The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at . Their complement was 134 officers and Naval rating, ratings. The main gun armament of the V class was four List of British ordnance t ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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