Mermaid class destroyer

Mermaid class destroyer
Class overview
Name: Mermaid-class
Operators:  Royal Navy
Built: 1896–1898
In commission: 1897–1919
Completed: 2
Lost: 1
Scrapped: 1
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 385 long tons (391 t) light
430 long tons (437 t) full load
Length: 214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) overall
Beam: 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion: 2 shaft reciprocating engines
6 boilers
6,100 shp (4,549 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 62
Armament: • 1 × BL 12 cwt 12-pounder gun
• 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes (2×1)

Two Mermaid-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.[1] They were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops. Built in 1896–1898, Mermaid and Cheerful were launched by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company from their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.

Their Thornycroft boilers produced 6,100 HP to given them the required 30 knots (56 km/h) and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the pair - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as C-class destroyers. The almost identical Greyhound class ships built subsequently at the same yard differed only by having Yarrow boilers.

References

  1. ^ "Mermaid-class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/greyhound_class.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-02. 
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