&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Thisbe_at_sea_(15841029496).jpg) Sister ship HMS Thisbe at sea in 1917
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Salmon |
| Ordered | July 1915 |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Govan |
| Laid down | 27 August 1915 |
| Launched | 7 October 1916 |
| Completed | 20 December 1916 |
| Out of service | 28 January 1937 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 265 ft (81 m) (p.p.) |
| Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (3 m) |
| Installed power | 3 Yarrow boilers, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 3,450 nmi (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 82 |
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HMS Salmon was an R-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The R class were an improvement on the previous M class with geared steam turbines to improve efficiency. Launched by Harland & Wolff at Govan in 1916, Salmon served with the Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet. The destroyer escorted convoys between Britain and Scandinavia. At the end of the war, the vessel was allocated to the Home Fleet but was given a reduced crew in 1919 as there was no longer the need for as many active ships in the navy. The destroyer subsequently helped in the searches following the loss of the submarines H47 and M2, as well as rescuing 10 members of the crew of the steamer Ioannois Fafalios, sunk after colliding with the freighter Bacchus. In 1933, Salmon was renamed Sable, which ironically had previously been the name of another R-class destroyer that had collided with the vessel in 1917, but only served three years with the new name. The destroyer was sold as part-payment in exchange for the liner Majestic in 1937 and broken up.