Greyhound-class destroyer
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_underway_at_Portland_IWM_N20856.jpg) Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Greyhound |
| Builders | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Mermaid class |
| Built | 1899–1902 |
| In commission | 1902–1920 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Scrapped | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) overall |
| Beam | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Installed power | 6,100 shp (4,549 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement | 62 |
| Armament |
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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. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.
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.
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