HMS Stonehenge (1919)

Sister ship Strenuous
History
United Kingdom
Name	Stonehenge
Ordered	7 April 1917
Builder	Palmers, Jarrow
Launched	19 March 1919
Commissioned	14 August 1919
Out of service	6 November 1920
Fate	Abandoned after running aground
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,075 long tons (1,092 t) normal 1,221 long tons (1,241 t) deep load
Length	265 ft (80.8 m) p.p.
Beam	26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3 m) mean
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers 2 geared Parsons steam turbines, 27,000 shp
Speed	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range	2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	90
Armament	3 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) guns 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (2 in) Mk. II AA gun 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 4 × depth charge chutes

HMS Stonehenge was an Admiralty S-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the twentieth century. The S class was a development of the R class created during the First World War as a cheaper alternative to the V and W class. Launched after Armistice that ended the war, the ship was commissioned in 1919 and joined the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla. The vessel supported the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and then British forces assisting the partition of the Ottoman Empire, being based at Constantinople in 1920. In that year, the destroyer ran aground off the coast of Smyrna while on a routine mission. Despite attempts by sister ship Serapis to refloat the stricken vessel, Stonehenge had to be abandoned, although no one died in the accident. The remains were sold in 1921.