Beagle as planned with 5 76mm guns
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Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Beagle | HC5 | John Brown, Clydebank | 3.1909 | 16.10.1909 | 4.1910 | sold for BU 11.1921 | |
| Bulldog | HC7, HC4 | John Brown, Clydebank | 3.1909 | 13.11.1909 | 7.1910 | sold for BU 9.1920 | |
| Grasshopper | H17, H60 | Fairfield, Govan | 4.1909 | 23.11.1909 | 7.1910 | sold for BU 11.1921 | |
| Harpy | D88, H19, H71 | White, Cowes | 4.1909 | 27.11.1909 | 7.1910 | sold for BU 11.1921 | |
| Renard | H99 | 691 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 4.1909 | 30.11.1909 | 9.1910 | sold for BU 8.1920 |
| Foxhound | H16, H58 | John Brown, Clydebank | 4.1909 | 11.12.1909 | 5.1910 | sold for BU 11.1921 | |
| Wolverine | H18 | 692 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 4.1909 | 15.1.1910 | 9.1910 | collision 12.12.1917 |
| Mosquito | HA3 | Fairfield, Govan | 4.1909 | 27.1.1910 | 8.1910 | sold for BU 8.1920 | |
| Basilisk | D89, HC8 | White, Cowes | 5.1909 | 9.2.1910 | 9.1910 | sold for BU 11.1921 | |
| Scourge | D96, H8A | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn | 3.1909 | 11.2.1910 | 8.1910 | sold for BU 5.1921 | |
| Racoon | HA7 | 693 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 5.1909 | 15.2.1910 | 10.1910 | wrecked 9.1.1918 |
| Scorpion | D90, HC3 | Fairfield, Govan | 5.1909 | 19.2.1910 | 8.1910 | sold for BU 10.1921 | |
| Savage | D92, HA9 | Thornycroft, Woolston | 3.1909 | 10.3.1910 | 8.1910 | sold for BU 5.1921 | |
| Rattlesnake | D94, HC7 | London & Glasgow Co, Govan | 4.1909 | 14.3.1910 | 8.1910 | sold for BU 5.1921 | |
| Pincher | D87, HC2 | Denny, Dumbarton | 5.1909 | 15.3.1910 | 9.1910 | wrecked 24.7.1918 | |
| Nautilus, 12.1913- Grampus | H07, H38, HA7 | Thames Iron Works, Blackwall | 4.1909 | 30.3.1910 | 9.1911 | sold for BU 9.1920 |
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Displacement normal, t |
945 average |
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Displacement full, t |
~1100 |
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Length, m |
80.4 - 83.8 pp |
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Breadth, m |
8.19 - 8.56 |
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Draught, m |
2.59 average |
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No of shafts |
3 |
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Machinery |
3 Parsons steam turbines, 5 Yarrow boilers Basilisk, Harpy: 3 Parsons steam turbines, 5 White-Forster boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
14300 |
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Max speed, kts |
27 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 205 - 236 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 2 x 1 - 533 TT (4) |
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Complement |
96 |
Project history: For the destroyers of the 1908-09 Programme the Admiralty decided against a repetition of the 'Tribals', partly because of their excessive cost but also because of their frailty. There was also a strong feeling against using oil fuel, which was then difficult to obtain. These arguments were reinformed by a report that a new German destroyer G137 had reached a mean speed of just over 33kts on a displacement of 372t for 4 hours. Understandably there was consternation at a coal-burner achieving the same speed as the oil-burning 'Tribals'. A sketch design was prepared in June 1908, but oil fuel was immediately deleted, and the final design was approved the following month. After orders had been placed a 102mm Mk.VIII was substituted for the 2 12pdr/12cwt mounted side-by-side on the forecastle. The new RGF Mk.VIII 533mm torpedo with the Hardcastle heater was adopted in this class. It ran at 50kts for 900m or 10,900m at 30kts. A major improvement was the siting of the forecastle gun on a raised platform, but the after TT was frequently unusable right aft over the rudder (during the war it was replaced by a 47mm AA gun in some boats). Like the 'Rivers' the Beagles sacrificed nominal speed for a more realistic sea speed. In trials against the 'Tribals' they repeatedly showed superior endurance. Designated the 'G' class from October 1913.
Modernizations: 1915-1917, Beagle, Bulldog, Harpy, Foxhound, Basilisk, Scourge, Rattlesnake, Grampus, Renard, Wolverine, Mosquito, Racoon, Pincher: + 1 x 1 - 47/50 3pdr Vickers Mk I
1915-1917, Scorpion: - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 47/50 3pdr Vickers Mk I
1917-1918, Beagle, Bulldog, Harpy, Foxhound, Rattlesnake, Grampus, Grasshopper, Renard, Wolverine, Mosquito, Racoon, Scorpion, Savage, Pincher: + 1 DCT
Naval service: Pincher wrecked 24.7.1918 on the Seven Stones. Racoon wrecked 9.1.1918 on West Coast of Ireland. Wolverine sunk 12.12.1917 in collision with sloop Rosemary off NW coast of Ireland.
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