HMS Verdun (L93)
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Verdun was an Admiralty V destroyer of the Royal Navy which saw service in the First and Second World Wars. So far she has been the only ship of the navy to bear the name Verdun, after the Battle of Verdun. She was assigned to carry the remains of The Unknown Warrior home to Britain on 8 November 1920. Verdun underwent a conversion to a long range escort at the start of the war, having her pennant number changed from D93 to L93 on its completion in May 1940. She o...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Verdun was an Admiralty V destroyer of the Royal Navy which saw service in the First and Second World Wars. So far she has been the only ship of the navy to bear the name Verdun, after the Battle of Verdun. She was assigned to carry the remains of The Unknown Warrior home to Britain on 8 November 1920. Verdun underwent a conversion to a long range escort at the start of the war, having her pennant number changed from D93 to L93 on its completion in May 1940. She operated as a convoy escort out of Rosyth and in the North Sea, being damaged by a bomb on 1 November 1940 that killed 11 men including her captain.
