HMS Teazer (1917)
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HMS Teazer
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| Name: | HMS Teazer |
| Ordered: | December 1915 |
| Builder: | Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 21 April 1917 |
| Commissioned: | December 1916 |
| Fate: | Sold 6 February 1931 |
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| Class and type: | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,064 long tons (1,081 t) standard 1,208 long tons (1,227 t) full |
| Length: | 274 ft (83.5 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 11 in (8.5 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,450 nautical miles (6,390 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 82 |
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H.M.S. Teazer was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy.
Teazer had a long overall of 274 feet (84 m) and a length of 265 feet (81 m) between perpendiculars.Displacement was 1,035 long tons (1,052 t) normal and 1,208 long tons (1,227 t) full load. Three Yarrow boilers fed steam to two sets of Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines rated at 29,000 shaft horsepower (22,000 kW) and driving two shafts, giving a design speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Three funnels were fitted. 296 tons of oil were carried, giving a design range of 3,450 nautical miles (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).
Armament consisted of three QF 4in Mk IV guns on the ship's centreline and a single 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom anti-aircraft gun. Four 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes in two twin rotating mounts were carried. Fire control included a single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The vessel had a complement of 82 officers and men.
Teazer was one of two R-class destroyers ordered by the British Admiralty from Thornycroft in December 1915 as part of the Seventh War Construction Programme alongside Taurus. The vessel was launched on 21 April 1917 and exceeded 40 knots in trials, achieving 40.22 knots (46 mph; 74 km/h).Teazer served in the Harwich Force as part of the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla during the war and was sold on 6 February 1931 to Cashmore of Newport.
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