Greyhound-class destroyer
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Greyhound (1900) underway at Portland IWM N20856.jpg |Ship caption=Greyhound underway at Portland in 1906 }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name= Greyhound |Builders=Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before={{sclass|Mermaid|destroyer|4}} |Class after= |Subclasses= |Cost= |Built range=1899–1902 |In service range= |In commission range= 1902–1920 |Total ships building= |Total ships planned= |Total ships completed=3 |Total ships cancelled= |Total ships active= |Total ships laid up= |Total ships lost= |Total ships retired= |Total ships scrapped=3 |Total ships preserved= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Destroyer |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=*{{convert|385|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} light
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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:Ship classes of the Royal Navy
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