HMS Volunteer (D71)
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The fourth HMS Volunteer (D71), later I71, was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II.
HMS Volunteer underway on the River Clyde during World War II.
Volunteer tied up at Akershus fortress, Oslo, Norway, shortly after WWI
V and W-class destroyer
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The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th of fourteen War Emergency Programmes during the First World War and generally treated as one class. For their time they were among the most powerful and advanced ships of their type in the world, and set the trend for future British designs.
HMS Veteran, an Admiralty modified W ship, a model at the Glasgow Museum of Transport
HMAS Waterhen (D22)
HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) in 1942
HMS Vidette (Admiralty V class), showing the typical inter-war layout of a V and W-class destroyer. She is wearing the 1939-pattern funnel bands of the 16th Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth; one red over one white.