Verdun before and after
On 10 November 1920, Verdun berthed at the Quai Carnot at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Verdun was selected to carry the Unknown Warrior across the English Channel because her name would be a tribute to the French people and the endurance of their armies at Verdun in 1916. At 11:00 on 20 November 1918 King George V, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales embarked in HMS Oak and, preceded by the Verdun, steamed through the fleet. Under the terms of the Armistice, the German High Seas Fleet went into internment at the Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow – in Operation ZZ, 60 Allied battleships escorted 11 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 8 cruisers and 48 destroyers of the High Seas Fleet into captivity.
She served with the Grand Fleet and the Harwich Force. Launched on 21 August 1917 at the Hawthorn Leslie shipyard in Hebburn on Tyneside, Verdun was completed in November of the same year. 2 Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet.She was assigned to carry the remains of The Unknown Warrior home to Britain on 8 November 1920. So far she has been the only ship of the royal navy to bear the name Verdun, after the Battle of Verdun. HMS Verdun was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which saw service in the First and Second World Wars. 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes.1 × 12 pounder 12 gun Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II.2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or.On a Field Paly, of three Blue, White and Red, a tower Gold.ĩ ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep HMS Verdun underway during the Second World WarĬonverted to long-range escort between 19