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BEAGLE class destroyers (1910)

Beagle as planned with 5 76mm guns   

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

 

Displacement normal, t

945 average

Displacement full, t

~1100

Length, m

80.4 - 83.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.19 - 8.56

Draught, m

2.59 average

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Parsons steam turbines, 5 Yarrow boilers

Basilisk, Harpy: 3 Parsons steam turbines, 5 White-Forster boilers

Power, h. p.

14300

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 205 - 236

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

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)

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.

Scourge 1910 trials

(Navypedia)

Beagle 1910 (A.Dashyan)

Basilisk

Pincher

 

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