HMS Roebuck (1901)

Sister ship Greyhound underway in 1906
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Roebuck
Ordered	1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates
Builder	R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Laid down	2 October 1899
Launched	4 January 1901
Commissioned	March 1902
Out of service	Laid up, December 1918
Fate	Broken up, 1919
General characteristics
Class and type	Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer[1][2]
Displacement	385 long tons (391 t) light 430 long tons (437 t) full load
Length	214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Installed power	6,100 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Yarrow boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 × shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	85 tons coal 1,555 nmi (2,880 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I naval gun 5 × QF 6-pounder 8 cwt naval gun 2 × single tubes for 18 in (450 mm) torpedoes

HMS Roebuck was a Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898–1899 Naval Estimates. She was the twelfth ship to carry the name.^[2][3] She served during World War I and was broken up in 1919.