HMS Spenser

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Spenser
Ordered	April 1916
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Laid down	9 October 1916
Launched	22 September 1917
Commissioned	12 December 1917
Fate	Sold for scrap 19 August 1936
General characteristics
Class and type	Thornycroft type destroyer leader
Displacement	1,554 long tons (1,579 t) (standard) 2,009 long tons (2,041 t) (full load)
Length	329 ft (100 m) o/a 318 ft 3 in (97.00 m) pp
Beam	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Draught	12 ft 3 in (3.73 m)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Brown-Curtiss single reduction steam turbines 4 × Yarrow boilers 2 × shafts
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Capacity	500 short tons (450 t) fuel oil
Complement	164
Armament	5 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark I gun, 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun, 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)

HMS Spenser was a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. She was built by J I Thornycroft from 1916 to 1917 as the lead ship of her class, launching in September 1917 and completing in December that year.

Spenser served in the Harwich Force during the rest of the First World War and in the Baltic during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1919. After service at home and in the Mediterranean, she went into reserve in 1925 and was sold for scrap in 1936.