Three ''Greyhound''-class destroyers served with the
Royal Navy during the
First World War. Built in 1899–1902, , and 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 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.
These four boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard
12-pounder gun 12-pounder gun or 12-pdr, usually denotes a gun which fired a projectile of approximately 12 pounds.
Guns of this type include:
*12-pounder long gun, the naval muzzle-loader of the Age of Sail
*Canon de 12 de Vallière, French cannon of 1732
*Cano ...
s 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
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Destroyer classes
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
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