Allied Warships

HMS Valorous (L 00)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Admiralty V & W
Pennant	L 00
Mod	Fast escort
Built by	William Denny & Brothers (Dumbarton, Scotland)
Ordered	Apr 1916
Laid down	25 May 1916
Launched	8 May 1917
Commissioned	21 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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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Edward Mack, RN	22 Aug 1939	9 Jan 1942
2	Lt.Cdr. William Wentworth Fitzroy, RN	9 Jan 1942	3 Mar 1943
3	Lt.Cdr. (retired) Hedworth Lambton, RN	3 Mar 1943	mid 1943

4	Lt. Morice Grant Macleod, RN	27 Sep 1943	12 Dec 1944
5	Lt. John Alexander Jeffreys Dennis, DSC, RN	12 Dec 1944	May 1945

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Notable events involving Valorous include:

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. (1)

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). (2)

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. (3)

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). (4)