HMS Venturer is a name that has been applied to multiple ships of the Royal Navy.
HMS Venturer (D31)
- Type: V‑class destroyer
- Builder: William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland
- Launched: 4 December 1917
- Service: Served with the Grand Fleet during the final year of World War I and remained in active service through the inter‑war period. The destroyer was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940, becoming HMCS St. Francis. She was scrapped in 1946.
HMS Venturer (P68)
- Type: V‑class (or “U‑class”) submarine
- Builder: Vickers‑Armstrongs, Barrow-in‑Furness
- Launched: 30 October 1943; commissioned 12 April 1944
- Service: Operated in the North Atlantic and the English Channel during the latter part of World War II. On 9 February 1945, HMS Venturer achieved the only known instance of a submerged submarine sinking another submerged submarine, sinking German U‑boat U‑864 off the coast of Norway using active sonar targeting and firing four torpedoes.
- Post‑war: Continued as a training vessel until decommissioned in 1949 and subsequently sold for scrap in 1950.
The name “Venturer” follows the Royal Navy tradition of using dynamic or aggressive nouns for warship names. No additional vessels bearing the name have been recorded in publicly available naval registers up to the present day.
