_IWM_SP_000081.jpg) Sister ship HMS Tower during sea trials
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Tirade |
| Ordered | March 1916 |
| Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Yard number | 478 |
| Laid down | 1 May 1916 |
| Launched | 21 April 1917 |
| Commissioned | 30 June 1917 |
| Out of service | 15 November 1921 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,035 long tons (1,052 t) (normal) |
| Length | 276 ft (84.1 m) (o.a.) |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Range | 3,450 nmi (6,390 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 82 |
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HMS Tirade was a Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. The Modified R class added attributes of the Yarrow Later M class to improve the capability of the ships to operate in bad weather. Launched in April 1917 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, the vessel served with the Grand Fleet. The vessel was involved in escorting convoys in the Irish Sea and North Sea. During one of these duties, in September 1917, Tirade sank the minelaying submarine UC-55. During the following month, the destroyer accidentally struck and sank the M-class destroyer Marmion. After the war the destroyer was placed in reserve and then, in November 1921, was sold to be broken up.