HMS Sharpshooter (1917)

1918 post card of two R-class destroyers, sistership HMS Satyr to the fore
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Sharpshooter
Builder	William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir
Yard number	550
Laid down	May 1916
Launched	27 February 1917
Commissioned	2 April 1917
Decommissioned	29 April 1927
Fate	Sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type	R-class destroyer
Displacement	1,065 long tons (1,082 t) normal
Length	276 ft (84.1 m)
Beam	26 ft 6 in (8.1 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers 2 geared Parsons steam turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Speed	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range	3,440 nmi (6,370 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX 1 × single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×2)

HMS Sharpshooter was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Launched on 27 February 1917, the ship joined the Harwich Force, undertaking convoy escort duties. The vessel also took part in the Navy’s bombardment of Ostend later that year. On 1 June 1918, the destroyer rescued Captain A. C. Sharwood, one of the first pilots of the Royal Australian Navy, who ditched his Sopwith 2F.1 Camel nearby. After the war, Sharpshooter joined the Navy gunnery training establishment at Plymouth, but did not stay long and was reduced to Reduced Complement on 5 March 1919. The Royal Navy was rationalising its destroyer force and Sharpshooter, deemed superfluous, was sold to be broken up on 29 April 1927.