HMS Sturgeon (1917)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Sturgeon
BuilderAlexander Stephen and Sons, Govan
Laid down10 November 1915
Launched11 January 1917
Completed26 February 1917
Fate16 December 1926
General characteristics
Class and typeR-class destroyer
Displacement1,220 long tons (1,240 t) deep load
Length276 ft 1 in (84.15 m) oa
Beam26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught1 ft 5+12 in (0.44 m)
Installed power27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion
  • 3× Yarrow boilers
  • Brown-Curtis steam turbines
  • 3 shafts
Speed36 kn (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Complement82
Armament
  • 3 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns
  • 1 × 2-pounder (40 mm) guns
  • 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Sturgeon was an R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Sturgeon was built built by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland, and was launched on 11 January 1917 and completed in February that year. The ship took its name after Sturgeon, a freshwater fish.

Sturgeon served in the North Sea as part of the Harwich Force during the remainder of the First World War. After the end of the war, the destroyer was used as a tender to the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, Devon. Sturgeon was sold for scrap on 16 December 1926.