Greyhound-class destroyer

Three Greyhound-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.[1] Built in 1899–1902, Greyhound, Racehorse and Roebuck 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.

Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906
Class overview
Name: Greyhound
Builders: Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
Operators:  Royal Navy
Preceded by: Mermaid class
Built: 1899–1902
In commission: 1902–1920
Completed: 3
Scrapped: 3
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:
  • 385 long tons (391 t) light
  • 430 long tons (437 t) full load
Length: 214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) overall
Beam: 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power: 6,100 shp (4,549 kW)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × Yarrow boilers
  • 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 62
Armament:
  • 1 × BL 12-pounder gun (12cwt)
  • 5 × 2-pounder guns (2 × 1)
  • 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 1)

They were virtually identical to the Mermaid-class destroyer 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.[2] These four boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder guns 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
  1. "Greyhound Class Destroyer". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. Lyon, The First Destroyers, p. 94
  • Lyon, David (2001) [1996]. The First Destroyers. Shipshape monographs. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.


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