HMS Melpomene (1915)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Melpomene
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Launched	1 February 1915
Completed	16 August 1915
Fate	Sold May 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Medea-class destroyer
Displacement	1,178 long tons (1,197 t) deep load
Length	273 ft 4 in (83.31 m) oa
Beam	26 ft 8 in (8.13 m)
Draught	11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)
Installed power	25,000 shp (19,000 kW)
Propulsion	3× Yarrow boilers Brown-Curtis steam turbines 3 shafts
Speed	32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Complement	79
Armament	3 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns 2 × 2-pounder (40 mm) guns 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Melpomene was a Medea-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers, of similar design to the British M-class ordered by Greece in June 1914, which the British purchased during construction owing to the outbreak of the First World War.

Medusa (originally named Samos) was launched by the Scottish shipbuilder Fairfield in February 1915 and was completed in August that year. She served with the Harwich Force in the North Sea and later with the Dover Patrol. She was sold for scrap in 1921.