Jump to content

Greyhound-class destroyer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906
Class overview
NameGreyhound
BuildersHawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded byMermaid class
Built1899–1902
In commission1902–1920
Completed3
Scrapped3
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer
Displacement
  • 385 long tons (391 t) light
  • 430 long tons (437 t) full load
Length214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) overall
Beam21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power6,100 shp (4,549 kW)
Propulsion
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement62
Armament

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]
  1. ^ "Greyhound Class Destroyer". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ^ Lyon, The First Destroyers, p. 94
  • Lyon, David (2001) [1996]. The First Destroyers. Shipshape monographs. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.