Allied Warships

HMS Valorous (L 00)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantL 00 
ModFast escort 
Built byWilliam Denny & Brothers (Dumbarton, Scotland) 
OrderedApr 1916 
Laid down25 May 1916 
Launched8 May 1917 
Commissioned21 Aug 1917 
End service 
History

Reconstruction to Fast Escort at Chatham Dockyard completed in June 1939.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947.

HMS Valorous is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Valorous (L 00)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. Edward Mack, RN22 Aug 19399 Jan 1942
2Lt.Cdr. William Wentworth Fitzroy, RN9 Jan 19423 Mar 1943
3Lt.Cdr. (retired) Hedworth Lambton, RN3 Mar 1943mid 1943

4Lt. Morice Grant Macleod, RN27 Sep 194312 Dec 1944
5Lt. John Alexander Jeffreys Dennis, DSC, RN12 Dec 1944May 1945

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Notable events involving Valorous include:


14 Oct 1939
ORP Orzel (Kpt.mar. (Lt.Cdr.) J. Grudzinski) arrived off the coast of the U.K. near the Firth of Forth. Contact was made and the escort destroyer HMS Valorous (Lt. E. Mack, RN) was sent out to escort her in. They met around 1115A/14.

They arrived at Rosyth around 1500A/14.

On arrival at Rosyth it was noted that ORP Orzel looked smart and clean and had only sustained some minor damage to her keel and the bow outer torpedo caps due the grounding twice.

31 Jan 1940
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is docked in the floating dock (AFD 3) at the Rosyth Dockyard. (1)

8 Feb 1940
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is undocked. (1)

18 Feb 1940
Around 1130Z/18, HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. C.H. Hutchinson, RN) departed from Rosyth for her 4th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the south coast of Norway.

Around 1240Z/18, she had to evade destroyers hunting a supposed enemy submarine in the Firth of Forth. At 1038Z/18, an indicator loop detected a crossing and the destroyers HMS Griffin (Lt.Cdr. J. Lee-Barber, RN), HMS Intrepid (Cdr. R.C. Gordon, RN) and HMS Ivanhoe (Cdr. P.H. Hadow, RN) had been sent to hunt for the suspected enemy submarine. They were later reinforced by HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN). No enemy submarine was in the area though. (2)

11 Mar 1940
Convoy FS 119 (ca. 23 ships) departed the Tyne escorted by the AA destroyer HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) and the sloops HMS Hastings (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Alison, RN) and HMS Lowestoft (Cdr. A.M. Knapp, RN). The destroyers HMS Jervis (Capt. P.J. Mack, RN) and HMS Jaguar (Lt.Cdr. J.F.W. Hine, RN) covered the convoy for part of the way south. These two destroyers arrived in the Humber on 12 March. The convoy arrived at Southend on 13 March. (3)

28 Apr 1940
Around 1400A/28, the light cruisers HMS Galatea (Capt. B.B. Schofield, RN, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral G.F.B. Edward-Collins, CB, KCVO, RN), HMS Arethusa (Capt. Q.D. Graham, RN) departed Rosyth for Scapa Flow where they arrived around 0115A/29. At sea they were joined by the escort destroyers HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) and HMS Wallace (Cdr. B.I. Robertshaw, RN). (4)

16 Oct 1940
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is docked in No.3 graving dock at the Rosyth Dockyard.

HMS Zulu (Cdr. J.S. Crawford, DSO, RN) is already in this dock since 12 October. (1)

11 Nov 1940
HMS Zulu (Cdr. J.S. Crawford, DSO, RN) and HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) are undocked. (1)

25 Oct 1941
Around 0230A/25, HMS London (Capt. R.M. Servaes, CBE, RN) departed Scapa Flow for North Shields, Tyne. HMS London was to refit at the Palmers Shipyard at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

Around 1030A/25, the destroyer HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) and the training vessel HMS Lairds Isle (Cdr. J. Lunnon, RD, RNR) joined company.

Around 1540A/25, HMS Lairds Isle parted company.

Around 1600A/25, HMS London entered the Tyne. (5)

8 Feb 1944
HMS Valorous (Lt. M.G. Macleod, RN) is docked in the floating dock (AFD 3) at the Rosyth Dockyard. (1)

11 Feb 1944
HMS Valorous (Lt. M.G. Macleod, RN) is undocked. (1)

15 Apr 1944
HMS Ursula (Lt. A.G. Davies, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Methill with HMS Westminster (Lt.Cdr. H.G. Bowerman, DSC, RN), HMS Valorous (Lt. M.G. Macleod, RN), HMS Preston North End (T/Lt. D.K. Bennett, DSC, RNVR), HMS Spurs (A/Skr.Lt. E.J. Day, RNR) and HMS Arab (T/Lt. J.S.H. Lloyd, RNVR). (6)

19 May 1944
HMS Valorous (Lt. M.G. Macleod, RN) is docked in the floating dock (AFD 3) at the Rosyth Dockyard. (1)

Media links


British destroyers & frigates

Norman Friedman


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

Sources

  1. Rosyth Dockyard docking register
  2. ADM 199/1861
  3. ADM 199/362
  4. ADM 53/111410 + ADM 53/112280
  5. ADM 53/114560
  6. ADM 173/19315

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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