&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Lysander,_Laforey-class_destroyer_-_IWM_Q_75134.jpg) Lysander
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Lysander |
| Namesake | Lysander |
| Builder | Swan Hunter, Wallsend |
| Laid down | 8 August 1912 |
| Launched | 18 August 1913 |
| Completed | 9 December 1913 |
| Out of service | 9 June 1922 |
| Fate | Broken up by Cashmore of Newport |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Laforey-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 268 ft 8 in (82 m) o/a |
| Beam | 27 ft 8 in (8 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3 m) |
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| Speed | 29 knots (33.4 mph; 53.7 km/h) |
| Range | 1,720 nmi (3,190 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 73 |
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HMS Lysander was a Laforey-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched in August 1913 as HMS Ulysses, the ship was renamed the following month under an Admiralty order to become one of the first in what would be the norm, a class of destroyers named after successive letters of the alphabet. On commissioning, the vessel joined the Third Destroyer Flotilla and operated as part of the Harwich Force. The destroyer took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, attacking the German light cruiser Mainz and escorted the seaplane carriers Engadine and Riviera in an abortive attempt to attack the Cuxhaven airship base. During 1915, Lysander undertook anti-submarine patrols and escorting duties, coming under fire from German shore-based batteries while accompanying the mine-laying paddle-steamers Prince of Wales and Queen Victoria off the coast of Ostend. In 1916, the destroyer was involved in action with German battlecruisers following the bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft but escaped unharmed, and rescued the survivors from the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle in 1918. With the cessation of hostilities, the ship was placed in reserve and sold to be broken up in June 1922.