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TORPEDO SHIPS

ACORN destroyers (1910-1912)

Acorn 1911

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Cameleon H21, H24   Fairfield, Govan 12.1909 2.6.1910 12.1910 sold 12.1921
Comet H25   Fairfield, Govan 2.1910 23.6.1910 1.1911 sunk 6.8.1918
Redpole H77, H96   White, Cowes 12.1909 24.6.1910 2.1911 sold 5.1921
Acorn H02, H03   John Brown, Clydebank 2.1910 1.7.1910 11.1910 sold 11.1921
Goldfinch H44   Fairfield, Govan 2.1910 12.7.1910 2.1911 wrecked 19.2.1915
Nemesis H72, H88 434 Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 11.1909 9.8.1910 3.1911 to Japan 6.1917-1919 (橄欖 [Kanran]), sold 11.1921
Rifleman H82, H97   White, Cowes 12.1909 22.8.1910 3.1911 sold 5.1921
Larne H57, H50 539 Thornycroft, Woolston 12.1909 23.8.1910 2.1911 sold 5.1921
Alarm H05, H04   John Brown, Clydebank 2.1910 29.8.1910 3.1911 sold 5.1921
Hope H48, H41   Swan Hunter, Wallsend 12.1909 6.9.1910 3.1911 sold 2.1920
Nereide H74, H89 435 Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 12.1909 6.9.1910 4.1911 sold 12.1921
Brisk H18, H70, H22   John Brown, Clydebank 2.1910 20.9.1910 6.1911 sold 11.1921
Lyra H60, H67 540 Thornycroft, Woolston 12.1909 4.10.1910 2.1911 sold 5.1921
Staunch H89, H2A   Denny, Dumbarton 1.1910 29.10.1910 3.1911 sunk 11.11.1917
Ruby H85, H98   White, Cowes 2.1910 4.11.1910 4.1911 sold 5.1921
Martin H65, H71 541 Thornycroft, Woolston 12.1909 15.12.1910 3.1911 sold 8.1920
Sheldrake H88, H0A   Denny, Dumbarton 1.1910 18.1.1911 5.1911 sold 5.1921
Nymphe H83, D25   Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 12.1909 31.1.1911 5.1911 sold 5.1921
Minstrel H69, H82 542 Thornycroft, Woolston 3.1910 2.2.1911 5.1911 to Japan 6.1917-1919 (栴檀 [Sendan]), sold 12.1921
Fury H42, H35   Inglis, Pointhouse 3.1910 25.4.1911 2.1912 sold 11.1921

 

Displacement normal, t

772

Displacement full, t

970

Length, m

75.0

Breadth, m

7.70 - 7.76

Draught, m

2.59 deep

No of shafts

3

Brisk: 2

Machinery

Cameleon, Comet, Acorn, Goldfinch, Nemesis, Larne, Alarm, Hope, Nereide, Lyra, Staunch, Martin, Sheldrake, Nymphe, Minstrel, Fury: 3 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Redpole, Rifleman, Ruby: 3 Parsons steam turbines, 4 White-Forster boilers

Brisk: 2 Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

13500

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

oil 170

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 2 x 1 - 533 TT

Complement

72

Project history: For the 1909-10 Programme there was a reversion to oil fuel, but speed was to be the same as the Beagles. For the first lime a standard Admiralty design was the basis, enabling a larger number of firms to tender for contracts. The original design had three short funnels to reduce the silhouette but the fore funnel was raised during building; the armament was also increased from 3.4 12 pdr to 2 102mm, one forward and one aft, with 12pdrs p&s at the break of the forecastle. The design was approved in July 1909.

Modernizations: 1917-1918, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 47/50 3pdr Vickers Mk I, 1 DCT

Naval service: Comet was torpedoed by German submarine UC38 off Syrian coast 6.8.1918. Goldfinch wrecked 19.2.1915 in the Orkneys. Staunch was sunk by German submarine UC38 off Gaza (Palestine) 11.11.1917. Minstrel and Nemesis served on loan to Japan in the Mediterranean in 1917-1919.

Nemesis

Staunch

Redpole

Cameleon 1917

 

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