Vera-Class Destroyer

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Class overview
Name: Vera-class destroyer
Builders: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators: CRNEnsign.png Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by: Ambra-class
Succeeded by: Lavinia-class
In commission: 1933 – 1969
Completed: 166
Lost: 18
Retired: 148
Preserved: 4
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:
  • 2,890 tons standard
  • 3,310 tons fully loaded
Length: 139.7 meters
Beam: 13.7 meters
Draft: 3.7 meters
Propulsion:
  • 2 × CNRC geared steam turbines
  • 2 × CNRC high-pressure water-tube boilers
  • 2 × shafts each driving six-bladed propellers
Speed: 42.7 knots (79.1 km/h)
Range: 5,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
Complement: 329 officers and crew
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 6 × 150mm RN-QFIV guns (3 × 2)
  • Anti-aircraft:
  • 6 × 40mm RN-AAIV guns (6 × 1)
  • 6 × MG50 machine guns (6 × 1)
  • Other:
  • 9 × 540mm torpedo tubes (3 × 3)
  • 2 × depth charge throwers
  • 24 × depth charges
  • 76 × mines

The Vera-class was a class of destroyers built by the Cacertian Empire prior to and during the Siduri War. The class was designed in the early 1930s as improvements to the previous experimental Ambra-class. The Cacertian Royal Navy commissioned a total of 166 Vera-class destroyers between the start of production 1933 to the end of the Siduri War in 1938, more than any other Cacertian destroyer class, and the design was generally considered a success.

Principally armed with six 150mm RN-QFIV naval guns, nine 540mm torpedo tubes in triple centerline mounts, and capable of reaching a speed of 42.7 knots, the Vera-class was able to perform every task required of a destroyer in the Royal Navy. As such, they served as fleet escorts in the anti-submarine and anti-aircraft role, commerce raiders, long-range scouts, and harassers. They could also cover vast distances required by fleet actions, primarily serving against the Navy of the Syaran Republic in the Nuandan Ocean.

While battleships have often been considered the priority in Cacertian naval culture, a massive effort was conducted by the nation’s shipyards across the country with every naval shipyard producing Veras during the war. The class continued to serve with the Royal Navy in the aftermath of the Siduri War with the last unit finally decommissioned in 1969.

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