Greyhound-class destroyer

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=HMS Greyhound (1900) underway at Portland IWM N20856.jpg |image_caption=''Greyhound'' underway at Portland in 1906 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/class overview |name= ''Greyhound'' |builders=Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |class_before={{sclass|Mermaid|destroyer|4}} |class_after= |subclasses= |cost= |built_range=1899–1902 |in_service_range= |in_commission_range= 1902–1920 |total_ships_building= |total_ships_planned= |total_ships_completed=3 |total_ships_canceled= |total_ships_active= |total_ships_laid_up= |total_ships_lost= |total_ships_retired= |total_ships_scrapped=3 |total_ships_preserved= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class= |type=Destroyer |tonnage= |displacement=*{{convert|385|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} light *{{convert|430|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load |length={{convert|214|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} overall |beam={{convert|21|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}} |height= |draught={{convert|13|ft|m|abbr=on}} |depth= |hold_depth= |decks= |deck_clearance= |power={{convert|6100|shp|0|abbr=on}} |propulsion=*4 × Yarrow boilers *2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines *2 shafts |speed={{convert|30|kn|lk=in}} |range= |endurance= |complement=62 |time_to_activate= |sensors= |EW= |armament=*1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun *5 × 2-pounder guns (2 × 1) *2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 1) |armour= |notes= }} }} Three '''''Greyhound''-class destroyers''' served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/greyhound_class.htm |title=Greyhound Class Destroyer |work=battleships-cruisers.co.uk |accessdate=12 July 2010 }}</ref> Built in 1899–1902, {{HMS|Greyhound|1900|2}}, {{HMS|Racehorse|1900|2}} and {{HMS|Roebuck|1901|2}} 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.

They were virtually identical to the {{sclass|Mermaid|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.<ref>{{harvnb|Lyon, The First Destroyers|page=94}}</ref> 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== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Lyon |first=David |title=The First Destroyers |series = Shipshape monographs |orig-date=1996 |year=2001 |publisher=Caxton Editions|location=London |isbn=1-84067-364-8 |ref={{harvid|Lyon, The First Destroyers}} }} {{refend}}

Category:Destroyer classes Category:Greyhound-class destroyers Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy