Mermaid-class destroyer

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{ref improve|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=HMS Greyhound (1900) underway at Portland IWM N20856.jpg |image_caption=The visually identical ''Greyhound'' underway in 1906 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/class overview |name=''Mermaid'' class |builders= |operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |class_before= |class_after= |subclasses= |cost= |built_range=1896–1898 |in_service_range= |in_commission_range= 1897–1919 |total_ships_building= |total_ships_planned= |total_ships_completed=2 |total_ships_canceled= |total_ships_active= |total_ships_laid_up= |total_ships_lost=1 |total_ships_retired= |total_ships_scrapped=1 |total_ships_preserved= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=Destroyer |tonnage= |displacement=*{{convert|385|LT|t|0|lk=in|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= |propulsion=*2 shaft reciprocating engines *4 Thornycroft boilers<ref >{{harvnb|Lyon, The First Destroyers|page=93}}</ref> *{{convert|6100|shp|0|abbr=on}} |speed={{convert|30|kn|lk=in}} |range= |endurance= |complement=62 |armament=*1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun *2 × {{convert|18|in|mm|0|sing=on}} torpedo tubes (2×1) |armour= |notes= }} }} Two '''''Mermaid''-class destroyers''' served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=https://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/greyhound_class.htm|title=''Mermaid''-class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2009-04-02}}</ref> They were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops. Built in 1896–1898, {{HMS|Mermaid|1898|2}} and {{HMS|Cheerful|1897|2}} were launched by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company from their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.

Their Thornycroft boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required {{convert|30|kn|km/h}} and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the pair - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as {{sclass2|C|destroyer|1||1913}}s. The almost identical {{sclass|Greyhound|destroyer|0}} ships built subsequently at the same yard differed only by having Yarrow boilers.

==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}}

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