They were virtually identical to the Mermaid-classdestroyer built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water-tube boiler; Yarrow rather than Thornycroft.[2] These four boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the three - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were re-classed as C-class destroyers.
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greyhound, class, destroyer, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Greyhound class destroyer news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Three Greyhound class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War 1 Built in 1899 1902 Greyhound Racehorse and Roebuck were three funnelled turtle backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops built by R amp W Hawthorn Leslie amp Company at their Hebburn on Tyne shipyard Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906Class overviewNameGreyhoundBuildersHawthorn Leslie HebburnOperators Royal NavyPreceded byMermaid classBuilt1899 1902In commission1902 1920Completed3Scrapped3General characteristicsTypeDestroyerDisplacement385 long tons 391 t light 430 long tons 437 t full loadLength214 ft 6 in 65 38 m overallBeam21 ft 1 in 6 43 m Draught13 ft 4 0 m Installed power6 100 shp 4 549 kW Propulsion4 Yarrow boilers 2 vertical triple expansion steam engines 2 shaftsSpeed30 knots 56 km h 35 mph Complement62Armament1 QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun 5 2 pounder guns 2 1 2 18 inch 450 mm torpedo tubes 2 1 They were virtually identical to the Mermaid class destroyer built a couple of years earlier by the same company except that they used a different type of water tube boiler Yarrow rather than Thornycroft 2 These four boilers produced 6 100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes They carried a complement of 63 officers and men In 1913 the three like all other surviving three funnelled destroyers of the 30 knotter group were re classed as C class destroyers References edit Greyhound Class Destroyer battleships cruisers co uk Retrieved 12 July 2010 Lyon The First Destroyers p 94 Lyon David 2001 1996 The First Destroyers Shipshape monographs London Caxton Editions ISBN 1 84067 364 8 nbsp This article about a specific destroyer of the United Kingdom is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Greyhound class destroyer amp oldid 1179199299, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
