HMCS Patriot
Patriot circa. 1922
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Patriot |
| Builder: | Thornycroft & Company, Southampton |
| Laid down: | July 1915 |
| Launched: | 20 April 1916 |
| Commissioned: | June 1916 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada in September 1920 |
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Canada
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| Name: | Patriot |
| Acquired: | September 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 1 November 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1927 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 1929 |
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| Class and type: | Thornycroft M-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 985 long tons (1,001 t) |
| Length: | 274 ft (84 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 254 long tons (258 t) oil |
| Complement: | 80 |
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HMS Patriot was a Thornycroft M-class destroyer that served in the British Royal Navy. The destroyer entered service in 1915 during the First World War and saw service with the Grand Fleet. Following the war, the destroyer was declared surplus and in 1920, the ship was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. Recommissioned as HMCS Patriot, the destroyer was used primarily as a training ship. Patriot was taken out of service in 1927, sold for scrap in 1929 and broken up.
Patriot was a Thornycroft M-class destroyer that displaced 985 long tons (1,001 t) and was 274 feet (84 m) long overall with a beam of 27 feet 3 inches (8.31 m) and a draught of 10 feet 6 inches (3.20 m). The ship was propelled by three shafts driven by Brown-Curtis turbines powered by three Yarrow boilers creating 26,500 shaft horsepower (19,800 kW). This gave the ship a maximum speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). The destroyer carried 254 long tons (258 t) of fuel oil.
The destroyer was armed with three quick-firing (QF) 4-inch (102 mm)/45 calibre Mark IV guns in single mounts. The No.2 4-inch gun was placed on a bandstand, unlike earlier M-class destroyers. For secondary armament, the destroyer was equipped with a single QF 2-pounder "pom-pom" Mk.II and four 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in two twin mounts. As a Thornycroft "special", Patriot resembled the standard Admiralty version of the class with the exception of her flat-sided funnels and higher freeboard.
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