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HMS Viscount (D 92)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 92 
Built byThornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down20 Dec, 1916 
Launched29 Dec, 1917 
Commissioned4 Mar, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in December 1941.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 20 March 1945. Scrapped on 27 May 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Michael Southcote Townsend, RN
24 August 1939 - ???
OBE 24 April 1940
DSC awarded on 11 July 1940
Bar to DSC awarded on 11 March 1941

HMS Viscount was in Dockyard Control during conversion / refit

Lt.Cdr. John Valentine Waterhouse, RN
9 December 1941 – ???
DSO awarded on 5 January 1943

???

Lt.Cdr. L.E. Woodhouse, RN
18 July 1943 – still in command in October 1944 according to the Navy list

HMS Viscount is not listed in the January 1945 Navy list 


Noteable events involving Viscount include:

2 Dec, 1940
HMS Viscount (Lt.Cdr. M.S. Townsend, OBE, DSC, RN) picks up survivors from the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Forfar that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-99 about 500 nautical miles west of Ireland in position 54º35'N, 18º18'W.

HMS Viscount also picks up 36 survivors from the British merchant Goodleigh that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-52 367 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º02'N, 18º45'W.

HMS Viscount also picks up 16 survivors from the British merchant Kavak that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-100 about 340 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º00'N, 19º30'W.

HMS Viscount also picks up 27 survivors from the British merchant Tasso that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-52 sink about 360 miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º03'N, 18º04'W.

15 Oct, 1942
The German submarine U-661 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 53º42'N, 35º56'W, after being rammed by the British destroyer HMS Viscount. (see map)

17 Feb, 1943
The German submarine U-201 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 50º50'N, 40º50'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Viscount (Lt.Cdr. J.V. Waterhouse, RN). (see map)


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