HMS Verity (D63)

	HMS Verity circa 1930
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Verity
Ordered	January 1918
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down	17 May 1918
Launched	19 March 1919
Commissioned	17 September 1919
Refit	Reconstructed to Long Range Escort finished in October 1943
Motto	Prevalebit; Truth shall prevail;
Honours and; awards	Atlantic (1939-45); Dunkirk (1940); North Sea (1940); North Africa (1942–43);
Fate	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947
Badge	On a Field Black, a Roman Lamp Gold
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty modified W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,140 tons standard, 1,550 tons full
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam	29.5 ft (9.0 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m), 11.25 ft (3.43 m) under full load
Propulsion	As built 1920:; 3 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp; LRE conversion 1943; 2 × Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 24,000 shp;
Speed	As built 1920:; 32 kn; 1943 LRE conversion; 24.5 kn;
Range	320-370 tons oil; 3,500 nmi at 15 kn; 900 nmi at 32 kn;
Complement	127
Sensors and ; processing systems	After 1943 LRE conversion: Type 271 target indication radar; Type 291 air warning radar;
Armament	As built 1920:; 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I; 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39); 6 × 21-inch Torpedo Tubes; 1943 LRE conversion:; 3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA gun; 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39); 2 × 20mm Oerlikon cannons; 3 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (triple mount); 2 × depth charge racks; Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar;

HMS Verity was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the first ship to carry the name Verity. She was ordered in January 1918 from John Brown & Company of Clydebank with the 13th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1918–19.

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