HMS Somme (1918)

Somme at anchor near Hong Kong, August, 1928
History
United Kingdom
Name	Somme
Ordered	9 April 1917
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan
Laid down	November 1917
Launched	10 September 1918
Commissioned	4 November 1918
Fate	Sold for scrap, August 1932
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,000 long tons (1,016 t) (normal)
Length	276 ft (84.1 m) o/a
Beam	26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3 m)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow boilers 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 Shafts; 1 steam turbine
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns 1 × single 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA guns 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × single 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Somme was an Admiralty S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during World War I. commissioned seven days before the end of the war, the ship was sold for scrap in 1932.