HMS Strongbow (1916)
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| Name: | HMS Strongbow |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow |
| Launched: | 30 September 1916 |
| Fate: | Sunk 17 October 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | M-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 930 long tons (940 t) |
| Length: | 273 ft 6 in (83.36 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 7 1⁄2 in (7.81 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 82 |
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HMS Strongbow was an M-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy during the First World War. The ship was launched in September 1916 and entered service in November that year. Stongbow was sunk on 17 October 1917 by the German light cruisers SMS Bremse and Brummer in the North Sea, when escorting a convoy of merchant ships from Norway.
HMS Strongbow was ordered from Yarrow Shipbuilders in July 1915 as part of the Sixth War Programme of shipbuilding for the Royal Navy.Strongbow was built as a Yarrow "special", to Yarrow's own design rather than to the Admiralty's own design for the M-class destroyer. Yarrow's design used direct-drive steam turbines rather than the geared turbines of the Admiralty design, and had two funnels rather than three. As such, they more closely resembled Yarrow R-class Specials, and are referred to as Yarrow R-class ships in some sources.
Strongbow's hull was 273 feet 6 inches (83.36 m) long overall, with a beam of 25 feet 7 1⁄2 inches (7.81 m) and a draught of 9 feet (2.74 m). Displacement was 930 long tons (940 t). Three Yarrow boilers fed Parsons turbines, driving two propeller shafts and generating 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,000 kW). This gave a speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Armament consisted of three QF Mark IV 4 inch (102 mm) guns, with a single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun and four 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The ship had a crew of 82 officers and men.
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