HMS Viscount (D92)

	HMS Viscount sometime after the May 1940 change of her pennant number to I92.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Viscount
Namesake	viscount
Ordered	30 June 1916 or July 1916
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire
Laid down	20 December 1916
Launched	29 December 1917
Completed	4 March 1918
Commissioned	4 March 1918
Decommissioned	March 1945
Identification	Pennant number:; F99; G06; G24 (April 1918); D92 (interwar); I92 (May 1940);
Motto	Nobile qui nobilis ("Handsome is as handsome does")
Honours and; awards	Battle honours for:; Atlantic 1939–1944; Biscay 1943;
Fate	Sold 20 March 1945 for scrapping
Badge	A viscount's coronet proper on a white field
General characteristics
Class and type	V-class destroyer
Displacement	1,120 tons standard
Length	300 ft (91 m) o/a, 312 ft (95 m) p/p
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed	36-knot (67 km/h)
Range	320–370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,700 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	134
Armament	4 × QF 4 in Mk V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I; 1 × QF 3-inch 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II; 6 (3x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes;

HMS Viscount was a V-class destroyer (Thornycroft V and W class) of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.

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