HMS Strenuous in the interwar period
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Strenuous |
Namesake | Strenuous |
Ordered | May 1917 |
Builder | Scotts, Greenock |
Yard number | 493 |
Laid down | March 1918 |
Launched | 9 November 1918 |
Completed | 20 October 1919 |
Out of service | 25 August 1932 |
Fate | Broken up |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | S-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 265 ft (80.8 m) p.p. |
Beam | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) mean |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
Range | 2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
Armament |
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HMS Strenuous was an S-class destroyer, which served with the Royal Navy. Launched 9 November 1918 two days before the Armistice, the ship was too late to see service in the First World War. Instead, the destroyer served for only a few months as part of the Atlantic Fleet before being transferred to Reserve in May 1920, where the ship remained for the next ten years. The London Naval Treaty, signed in 1930, required the retirement of some destroyers to meet the Royal Navy's tonnage requirement and Strenuous was chosen as one of those to leave the service. The destroyer was therefore decommissioned and sold to be broken up on 25 August 1932.