HMSVenturous sometime between January and September 1918, when herpennant number was F21. She has a gun painted on acanvas screen aft to conceal herminelaying capabilities.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSVenturous
Namesake	venturous
Ordered	July 1916[1]
Builder	William Denny and Brothers,Dumbarton[1]
Laid down	9 October 1916[2]
Launched	21 September 1917[1]
Completed	29 November 1917[2]
Identification	Pennant number: F30 (1917) F21 (January 1918) F87 (September 1918) D87
Fate	Transferred for scrapping 24 August 1936[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty V-classdestroyer
Displacement	1,272-1,339 tons
Length	300 ft (91.4 m)o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m)p/p
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) standard, 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) deep
Propulsion	3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Speed	34 kn
Range	320-370 tons oil, 3,500 nmi at 15 kn, 900 nmi at 32 kn
Complement	110
Armament	4 ×QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I 2 ×QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or; 1 zQF 12 pdr 20 cwt Mk.I (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II 4 (2x2) tubes for 21 in torpedoes

HMSVenturous (D87) was aV-classdestroyer of theBritishRoyal Navy that saw service inWorld War I.

Venturous, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered in July 1916.^[1] She waslaid down on 9 October 1916^[2] byWilliam Denny and Brothers atDumbarton,Scotland, and, per aBritish Admiralty order of 12 January 1917, fitted to carry 60naval mines for operations as aminelayer. She waslaunched on 21 September 1917^[1] and completed on 29 November 1917.^[2] Her originalpennant number,F30, assigned in 1917, becameF21 in January 1918 andF87 in September 1918 before finally changing to D87.^[1]

During World War I,Venturous took part in the first deployment of operationalmagneticbottom mines when she joined the destroyersHMS Abdiel,Tarpon,Telemachus,Vanoc, andVanquisher, escorted by eight other destroyers, in laying 234Sinker Mk1(M) mines in theNorth Sea off the coast ofFlanders,Belgium, about eightnautical miles (15 km) north ofDunkirk,France.German forces did not interfere with the operations. She also participated withAbdiel,Tarpon,Telemachus, andVanquisher in the second operation to lay Sinker mines on 22 August 1918, in the North Sea off Flanders about 17 nautical miles (31 km) north ofZeebrugge, Belgium, supported byRoyal Air Force aircraft which patrolled to prevent Germanaerial observation of the operation.^[3]

As the result of a reorganization of Royal Navy destroyerflotillas in 1921,Venturous became part of the9th Destroyer Flotilla along with thedestroyer leadersHMS Douglas,Valentine, andValkyrie and the destroyersVanessa,Verdun,Vesper,Vivien, andWhitley. The entire flotilla was transferred to theReserve Fleet on 4 April 1922 and laid up atRosyth, Scotland, with reduced crews, but it was recommissioned on 8 April 1925 and renumbered as the7th Destroyer Flotilla.^[4]

After World War I, the United Kingdom received the passenger liner SSBismarck from Germany in 1920 as a war reparation, and she was sold to theWhite Star Line, later theCunard White Star Line, in which she served asRMS Majestic. In 1936, Cunard White Star retiredMajestic and sold her toThos. W. Ward for scrapping, but because of legal requirements imposed under the agreement transferringMajestic to the United Kingdom as a war prize, the British government instead took control ofMajestic and assigned her to the Royal Navy. To pay Thos. W. Ward forMajestic, the Royal Navy agreed to transfer 24 old destroyers with a combined scrap value equivalent to that ofMajestic to Thos W Ward for scrapping.Venturous was among these, and her transfer to Thos W Ward for scrapping took place on 24 August 1936. She was scrapped atInverkeithing,Scotland.^[1]

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