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Nemesis

Ships

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

Technical data

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

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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.