High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Veteran was a V class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the third ship to carry the name Veteran. She was launched in 1919 and therefore missed the First World War. She served as a convoy escort in the Second World War before being sunk by the German U-boat U-404 while rescuing survivors from the SS New York, a recently torpedoed United States ship. There were no survivors. In May 1940, her pennant number was changed from D72 to I72