High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Venus (R50) was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Govan, Scotland and launched on 23 February 1943. She participated in the Battle of the Malacca Strait with HMS Saumarez, Verulam, Vigilant, and Virago which cumulated in the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Haguro on 16 May 1945.