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"Modified R" destroyers (1917)

Ursula 1918

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Trenchant G96, G78   White, Cowes 7.1916 23.12.1916 4.1917 BU 5.1928
Tristram F89, F25   White, Cowes 9.1916 24.2.1917 6.1917 BU 5.1921
Undine G97, G79   Fairfield, Govan 1916 22.3.1917 5.1917 BU 4.1928
Ulysses F80, G96, G77   Doxford, Pallion 8.1916 24.3.1917 6.1917 collision 29.10.1918
Tower F98, F24   Swan Hunter, Wallsend 1916 5.4.1917 8.1917 BU 5.1928
Tirade F81, G80   Scotts, Greenock 1916 21.4.1917 6.1917 BU 1.1921
Urchin F95, F04   Palmers, Jarrow 1916 7.6.1917 8.1917 BU 1.1930
Umpire F94, F26   Doxford, Pallion 1916 9.6.1917 8.1917 BU 1.1930
Ursa F10   Palmers, Jarrow 1916 23.7.1917 10.1917 BU 7.1926
Ursula F88, F84, F01   Scotts, Greenock 1916 2.8.1917 9.1917 BU 11.1929
Ulster F91, F17   Beardmore, Dalmuir 9.1916 10.10.1917 11.1917 BU 4.1928

 

Displacement normal, t

975

Displacement full, t

1225 - 1242

Length, m

84.1

Breadth, m

8.14

Draught, m

2.75

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Tirade, Tower, Ulster, Ulysses, Umpire, Undine, Ursula: 2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Tristram, Trenchant: 2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 White-Forster boilers

Urchin, Ursa: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

27000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

oil 296

Endurance, nm(kts) 3440(15)

Armament

3 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 2 - 533 TT

Complement

82

Project history: Out of the last 26 'R' class ordered in March 1916 only 15 were completed to the original design. Despite all the minor improvements reports from the various commands and flotillas showed that bridges needed to be as far aft as possible, to protect personnel, and hulls needed to be stronger to cope with the exceptional stresses of constant hard driving in heavy weather. The 'Modifed R' class had No 1 and No 2 boiler rooms transposed, allowing the uptakes to be combined in one fatter funnel and making space for the forward gun and bridge to be moved aft. New CP.III 102mm mountings had 30° elevation, increasing range from 9,100m to 10,900m. Trenchant, the lead-ship, and her sister Tristram had their funnels made on thin plating, with distinctive ribs to strengthen them. Undine made 36.5kts on trials, in light condition.

Modernizations: Some destroyers after commission: + 2 - 356 TT (beam)

Naval service: Ulysses collided with s/s Ellerie in Clyde 29.10.1918.

Urchin

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