| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Bulldog |
| Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down | 30 March 1909 |
| Launched | 13 November 1909 |
| Commissioned | 7 July 1910 |
| Out of service | 1919 |
| Honours and awards | Dardanelles 1915 - 1916 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking, 21 September 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer...[1] |
| Displacement | 860 long tons (874 t) |
| Length | 287 ft (87 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
| Installed power | 12,500 hp (9,300 kW) under a forced draught |
| Propulsion | 5 x Yarrow Coal-fired boilers, 3 x Parson's steam turbines driving 3 shafts |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 205 long tons (208 t) tons coal 1,530 NM @ 15 Knots |
| Complement | 96 |
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HMS Bulldog was one of sixteen destroyers ordered under the 1908- 09 Naval Estimates from John Brown & Company of Clydebank. Named for the English bulldog, she was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1782 for a 16-gun Sloop broken in 1829.[2] The destroyers of the 1908-09 program would be the last coal-fired destroyers of the Royal Navy. She and her sisters served in the First Destroyer Flotilla then were moved en masse to the Third Destroyer Flotilla and before the start of the Great War to the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. With the advent of the convoy system they were moved to the Second Destroyer Flotilla. With the Armistice she was laid up then scrapped in 1920.
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (1969). Jane's Fighting Ships 1914. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1914, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company. p. 82.
- ^ J.J. Colledge (2010). Ships of the Royal Navy. Casemate, Philadelphia & Newbury. p. Section B (Bulldog). ISBN 978-1-61200-0275.