Mermaid-class destroyer
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Greyhound (1900) underway at Portland IWM N20856.jpg |Ship caption=The visually identical Greyhound underway in 1906 }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Mermaid class |Builders= |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before= |Class after= |Subclasses= |Cost= |Built range=1896–1898 |In service range= |In commission range= 1897–1919 |Total ships building= |Total ships planned= |Total ships completed=2 |Total ships cancelled= |Total ships active= |Total ships laid up= |Total ships lost=1 |Total ships retired= |Total ships scrapped=1 |Total ships preserved= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Destroyer |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=*{{convert|385|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} light
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|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=62 |Ship armament=*1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun
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Two Mermaid-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=Mermaid-class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2009-04-02}} They were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops. Built in 1896–1898, {{HMS|Mermaid|1898|2}} and {{HMS|Cheerful|1897|2}} were launched by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company from their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.
Their Thornycroft boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required {{convert|30|kn|km/h}} and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the pair - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as {{sclass2|C|destroyer|1||1913}}s. The almost identical {{sclass|Greyhound|destroyer|0}} ships built subsequently at the same yard differed only by having Yarrow boilers.
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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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Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy
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