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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

TORPEDO SHIPS

PARKER leaders

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Grenville   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 6/1915 17/6/1916 10/1916 BU 12/1931
Parker (ex-Frobisher)   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 6/1915 19/4/1916 11/1916 BU 11/1921
Hoste   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 7/1915 16/8/1916 11/1916 collision 21/12/1916
Saumarez   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 7/1915 14/10/1916 12/1916 BU 1/1931
Seymour   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 7/1915 31/8/1916 11/1916 BU 1/1930
Anzac (RAN 1919)   Denny, Dumbarton 1/1916 11/1/1917 4/1917 BU 8/1935

 

  

Displacement normal, t

1660 - 1673

Displacement full, t

1912

Length, m

99.0

Breadth, m

9.70

Draught, m

3.70

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Parsons steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Anzac: Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

36000

Max speed, kn

34

Fuel, t

oil 515

Armament

4 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, 2 x 2 - 533 TT

Complement

116

Ship project history: Leaders of the second series had the improved seaworthiness, their bridge has been moved on 4m astern, and second 102mm gun mounted in a superimposed position. They were actively used in days of WWI.

Modernizations: late 1916, Seymour: was converted to minelayer: - 2 x 1 - 102/40, 2 x 2 - 533 TT; + rails for 80 mines.

Naval service: Hoste collided with destroyer Negro off Shetland Islands, two her depth-charges detonated and stern of ship was demolished. Ship was finally abandoned.

  

Saumarez

 

 

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