Greyhound class destroyer

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Class overview

Name:	Greyhound
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Mermaid class
Completed:	3
General characteristics
Type:	destroyer
Displacement:	385 tons (light) 430 tons (full load)
Length:	214 ft 6 in (65.4 m) overall
Beam:	21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Draught:	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion:	2 shaft reciprocating engines 6 boilers 6,100 shp
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	62
Armament:	1 BL 12-pounder gun (12cwt) 5 2-pounder guns (2x1) 2 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1)

Three Greyhound class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War ^[1]. Built in 1899-1902, HMS Greyhound, Racehorse and Roebuck were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers, with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops, built by R. & L. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard. They were virtually identical to the Mermaid class destroyers built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water tube boiler. These 4 Yarrow 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 reclassed as C class destroyers.