HMS Radiant (1916)

HTMS Phra Ruang at Bangkok on 29 November 1955
History
United Kingdom
Name	Radiant
Ordered	July 1915
Builder	Thornycroft
Launched	25 November 1916
Commissioned	February 1917
Fate	Sold on 21 June 1920
Badge
Thailand
Name	Phra Ruang
Namesake	Phra Ruang
Acquired	September 1920
Decommissioned	1957
Stricken	1959
General characteristics
Type	R-class destroyer
Displacement	Normal: 1,035 long tons (1,052 t) Full: 1,208 long tons (1,227 t)
Length	276 ft (84.1 m)
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Installed power	3 × boilers 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × geared Brown Curtis steam turbines, 2 × shafts
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,440 nmi (6,370 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX 1 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) gun 1 × 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×2)

HMS Radiant was an R-class destroyer which fought in the First World War as part of the Royal Navy before being transferred to the Royal Thai Navy, in which she served until well after the Second World War.^[1]