V and W-class destroyers in Ronald Bassett's 1977 novel The Tinfish Run. HMS Viking and HMS Vectra are two of the escorts of the 14th Aircraft Carrier Squadron in Alistair MacLean's novel HMS Ulysses. HMS Vortex is the name of a fictional destroyer participating in the 1918 Zeebrügge raid in the 1963 novel The Admiral by Warren Tute. HMS Whippet is the name of a fictional (the real one was canceled) W-class destroyer converted for escort work in the British Commando War Stories in Pictures comic #669, titled Destroyer!, published in 1972. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Further reading Robert J. Moore and John A. Rodgaard, A Hard Fought Ship, The Story of HMS Venomous (2010) Holywell Publishing, St. Albans. Detailed "biography" of one of the later V-class destroyers External links Battle of the Atlantic Destroyer classes North Atlantic convoys of World War II Ship classes of the Royal Navy