HMS Landrail (1914)

HMS Landrail
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Landrail
Builder	Yarrow, Scotstoun
Laid down	24 July 1912
Launched	7 February 1914
Completed	June 1914
Fate	Sold December 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Laforey-class destroyer
Displacement	983 long tons (999 t) deep load
Length	268 ft 10 in (81.9 m) oa
Beam	27 ft 6 in (8.4 m)
Draught	10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
Installed power	24,500 shp (18,300 kW)
Propulsion	3 × Yarrow boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 2 shafts
Speed	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Complement	73
Armament	3 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Landrail was a Laforey-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Laforey class (or L class) was the class of destroyers ordered under the Royal Navy's 1912–1913 construction programme, which were armed with three 4-inch (102 mm) guns and four torpedo tubes and were capable of 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). The ship, which was originally to be named Hotspur but was renamed before launch, was built by the Scottish shipbuilder Yarrow between 1912 and 1914,

Landrail served during the First World War. She formed part of the Harwich Force in the early years of the war, taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Later in the war she joined the First Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth where she served as a convoy escort. She survived the war, and was sold for scrap in 1921.