&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Tobago_(1918)_IWM_SP_1330.jpg) HMS Tobago in 1918
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Tobago |
| Ordered | April 1917 |
| Builder | Thornycroft |
| Laid down | May 1917 |
| Launched | 15 July 1918 |
| Commissioned | October 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 15 December 1920 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap in Malta on 9 February 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,087 long tons (1,104 t) standard 1,240 long tons (1,260 t) deep load |
| Length | 266 ft 9 in (81.3 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
| Range | 3,450 nautical miles (6,390 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMS Tobago was a Thornycroft S-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the Greco-Turkish War. Launched by Thornycroft on 15 July 1918, the vessel followed a design typical of the yard by being faster than the majority of the class, and also had better seakeeping properties thanks to a raised forecastle. The destroyer operated as part of the Grand Fleet for the last few weeks of the First World War, and, after the Armistice, joined the Mediterranean Fleet based in Malta. While serving in off the coast of Turkey, the ship hit a mine on 15 July 1920, exactly two years after being launched. Despite the relative youth of the vessel, the damage was deemed irrepairable and so Tobago returned to Malta and was sold for scrap on 9 February 1922.