HMS Ghurka (1907)

HMS Ghurka
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ghurka
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down	6 February 1906
Launched	29 April 1907
Commissioned	December 1908
Fate	Mined, 8 February 1917
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	880 long tons (894 t) normal 990 long tons (1,006 t) deep load
Length	255 ft 0 in (77.72 m) pp 260 ft 6 in (79.40 m) oa
Beam	25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Propulsion	3 × steam turbines 3 × shafts 14,250 shp (10,630 kW)
Speed	33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range	1,460 nmi (2,700 km; 1,680 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	72
Armament	5 × QF 12-pounder guns,[2] 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Ghurka^[a] was a Tribal-class destroyer built in 1907 for the Royal Navy. She served as part of the Dover Patrol during the First World War, playing a part in the sinking of the German submarine U-8 in 1915, and was sunk by a German mine in 1917.

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