HMS Patrician (1916)

HMS Patrician circa 1916–1918
History
United Kingdom
Name	Patrician
Builder	Thornycroft & Company, Southampton
Laid down	June 1915
Launched	5 June 1916
Out of service	September 1920
Fate	Transferred to Canada in 1920
Canada
Name	Patrician
Acquired	September 1920
Commissioned	1 November 1920[1]
Decommissioned	1 January 1928
Fate	Sold 1929, broken up at Esquimalt[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Thornycroft M-class destroyer
Displacement	985 long tons (1,001 t)
Length	274 ft (84 m) o/a
Beam	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draught	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion	Brown-Curtis steam turbines 26,500 shp (19,800 kW) 3 shafts
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	254 long tons (258 t) oil
Complement	80
Armament	3 × QF 4 in (102 mm) Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk.IX 1 × single QF 2-pounder "pom-pom" Mk.II 2 × twin 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Patrician was a Thornycroft M-class destroyer that served in the British Royal Navy during World War I. The destroyer entered service in 1916 and served with the Grand Fleet. Following the war, the destroyer was deemed surplus and she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1920 and served there until 1928. She was sold for scrap in 1929.