S-class destroyer (1917)

Tenedos underway at high speed, 1921
Class overview
Builders
Operators
Preceded byR class W class
Succeeded byModified W class
SubclassesThornycroft and Yarrow "specials"
In commission1918–1945
Planned69
Completed67
Cancelled2
Lost
  • 6 wrecked or sunk
  • 2 constructive total loss
  • 1 captured (later returned)
General characteristics
Displacement
Length
  • 265 ft (80.8 m) (pp)
  • 276 ft (84.1 m) (oa)
Beam26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Draught9 ft 10 in (3.0 m)
Installed power27,000 shp (20,134 kW)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) (deep)
  • 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (normal)
Range2,750 nmi (5,090 km; 3,160 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement90
Armament

The S class (initially known as the Modified Trenchant class[3]) was a class of 67 destroyers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1917 under the 11th and 12th Emergency War Programmes. They saw active service in the last months of the First World War and in the Russian and Irish Civil Wars during the early 1920s. Most were relegated to the reserve by the mid-1920s and subsequently scrapped under the terms of the London Naval Treaty. Eleven survivors saw much action during the Second World War.

  1. ^ a b "Torpedoes of the United Kingdom/Britain – Pre-World War II". NavWeaps.com. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  2. ^ March, British Destroyers, p.219.
  3. ^ March, op. cit. p.215.


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