Overview
HMS Valentine was a member of the V-class flotilla leaders (1917).
HMS Valentine is associated with United Kingdom and Royal Navy. It belonged to V-class flotilla leaders (1917), so the class page provides the shared design history while this page concentrates on the individual ship.
Construction and identity
The available construction record identifies HMS Valentine as built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, laid down on 1916-08-07, launched on 1917-03-24, and completed on 1917-06-27.
The ship's documented identity includes service with Royal Navy.
Service history
Served in home waters during World War I and later survived into World War II.
The ship's configuration should be interpreted through the documented class and the dates attached to this individual vessel; equipment should not be assumed to have remained unchanged throughout service.
Class context: V-class flotilla leaders (1917)
The five V-class flotilla leaders were ordered in 1916 as fast destroyer leaders for Grand Fleet flotillas.
As a member of V-class flotilla leaders (1917), HMS Valentine shared the class's documented design framework and intended roles of Destroyer leader and Fleet screen. Individual refits, transfers, and wartime changes belong to this ship only when separately documented.
Later service and disposition
bombed and stranded. The associated date is 1940-05-15. The recorded location is Scheldt estuary.
HMS Valentine matters as an individual career within V-class flotilla leaders (1917), allowing class-wide design history to be separated from this ship's own construction, identities, service, and fate.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of V-class flotilla leaders (1917). Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921Conway Maritime Press
- British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World WarSeaforth Publishing
- Royal Navy destroyers of World War I — V class flotilla leaders ↗Naval-History.Net · accessed 2026-09-18