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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.
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![]() Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906 | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Greyhound |
Builders | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Mermaid class |
Built | 1899–1902 |
In commission | 1902–1920 |
Completed | 3 |
Scrapped | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 62 |
Armament |
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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.
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