Mermaid-class destroyer

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|Name=Mermaid class

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|Built range=1896–1898

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|In commission range= 1897–1919

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|Total ships completed=2

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|Ship type=Destroyer

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|Ship displacement=*{{convert|385|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} light

  • {{convert|430|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load

|Ship length={{convert|214|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} overall

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|Ship draught={{convert|13|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|Ship propulsion=*2 shaft reciprocating engines

  • 4 Thornycroft boilers{{harvnb|Lyon, The First Destroyers|page=93}}
  • {{convert|6100|shp|0|abbr=on}}

|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn|lk=in}}

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|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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{{C class destroyer}}

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Category:Destroyer classes

Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy

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