Mermaid class destroyer
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Mermaid |
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | Mermaid class |
| Completed: | 2 |
| 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) |
Two Mermaid class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War [1]. They were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops. Built in 1896-1898, HMS Mermaid and HMS Cheerful were built by R. & L. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard. Their Thornycroft boilers produced 6,100 HP to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes. They carried a compliment of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the pair - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as C class destroyers. The almost identical Greyhound class ships built subsequently at the same yard differed only by having Yarrow boilers.
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