Greyhound-class destroyer

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|Name= Greyhound

|Builders=Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn

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|Class before={{sclass|Mermaid|destroyer|4}}

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|Built range=1899–1902

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|In commission range= 1902–1920

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|Ship propulsion=*4 × Yarrow boilers

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|Ship armament=*1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun

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Three Greyhound-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.{{Cite web

|url= http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/greyhound_class.htm

|title=Greyhound Class Destroyer

|work=battleships-cruisers.co.uk

|accessdate=12 July 2010

}} Built in 1899–1902, {{HMS|Greyhound|1900|2}}, {{HMS|Racehorse|1900|2}} and {{HMS|Roebuck|1901|2}} were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers, with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops, built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.

They were virtually identical to the {{sclass|Mermaid|destroyer}} built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water-tube boiler; Yarrow rather than Thornycroft.{{harvnb|Lyon, The First Destroyers|page=94}} These four boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the three - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were re-classed as C-class destroyers.

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  • {{cite book

|last=Lyon |first=David

|title=The First Destroyers

|series = Shipshape monographs

|orig-date=1996

|year=2001

|publisher=Caxton Editions|location=London

|isbn=1-84067-364-8

|ref={{harvid|Lyon, The First Destroyers}}

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{{C class destroyer}}

Category:Destroyer classes

Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy

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