Greyhound-class destroyer explained

Three Greyhound-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.[1] Built in 1899 - 1902,, and 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 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. 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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  1. Web site: Greyhound Class Destroyer . battleships-cruisers.co.uk . 12 July 2010.

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