Almirante Lynch class destroyer

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The Almirante Lynch class destroyers were a group of ships built for the Chilean Navy just before World War I. The Chileans had long been customers of British shipyards and ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were larger and more powerful that contemporary British destroyers. Two ships were delivered before the outbreak of war and served in the Chilean Navy until 1945. The remaining four ships were purchased by the British in 1914 and fought in the Royal Navy during World War I as the Faulknor class Flotilla leaders. The three surving ships were re-sold to Chile but being worn out were scrapped in 1933

[edit] General Characteristics

Displacement: 1430 tons standard, 1850 tons full load
Length: 101 m
Beam: 9.9 m
Draught: 3.35 m
Machinery: 6 Foster-White Mixed fired boilers, 3 shaft Parsons direct turbines, 30,000 hp
Speed: 31 knots
Range: 4,205 nm at 15 knots
Armament
- 6 - 4 in guns ( ex British ships had 2-4.7 inch & 2-4 inch guns)
- 4 - Machine guns ( 2 pom poms in ex British ships)
- 6 - 21 inch torpedo tubes (4 in ex British ships)
Crew: 160 (197 in ex British ships)

[edit] Ships

Ship	Launched	Commisioned	Fate
Almirante Condell	28 September 1912	January 1914	Decommisioned 1945
Almirante Lynch	28 September 1912	1913	Decommisioned 1945
Almirante Riveros , (ex HMS Faulknor), ex Almirante Simpson	26 February 1914,	late 1914	Returned to Chile 1920, Scrapped 1933
Almirante Uribe , (ex HMS Brooke (1914)), ex Almirante Goni	25 May 1914	Late 1914	Returned to Chile 1920, Scrapped 1933
Almirante Williams (ex HMS Botha)	2 December 1914	1915	Returned to Chile 1920, Scrapped 1933
HMS Tipperary, ex Almirante Riveros	5 March 1915	Early 1916	Sunk during Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916