Marksman class leader
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Marksman class leader |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,600 tons |
| Length: | 321 ft |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in |
| Draught: | 11 ft |
| Propulsion: | Yarrow type boilers (White-Forster in Lightfoot), Parsons steam turbines (Brown-Curtis in Marksman, Nimrod), 3 shafts, 36,000 shp |
| Speed: | 34 kts |
| Range: | 510 tons oil, ? |
| Complement: | 106 - 116 |
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The Marksman class were a class of flotilla leaders built for the Royal Navy. Two each were ordered in the naval programmes of 1913-14 and 1914-15 with a further three being ordered under the Emergency War Programme and all saw service during World War I.
Like other British flotilla leader designs, these ships were significantly larger than the typical destroyers of the day, in order to accommodate the flotilla staff ("Captain (D)" in Royal Navy parlance) and the necessary additional signalling gear. All ships had four funnels, the foremost being taller (although it was later cut down post-war in Nimrod and Abdiel). They were armed with four QF 4 inch guns which were, significantly, under director control from the bridge (previous ships used independent local control for their guns). The guns were carried one each on the forecastle, between the first three funnels and on a bandstand on the quarterdeck. Abdiel and Gabriel were later fitted as fast minelayers, for which purposes they landed the after 4 inch gun and their torpedo tubes and were screened from the fourth funnel to the stern to give shelter to 60 to 70 mines. Nimrod and Kempenfelt later received QF 12 pdr (3 inch / 76 mm) 18 cwt anti aircraft guns in place of one of the QF 2 pdr.
[edit] Ships
- Abdiel — built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, laid down May 6, 1915, launched October 12, 1915, completed March 26, 1915, sold for scrapping 1936
- Gabriel — built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, laid down January 12 1915, launched December 23, 1915, completed July 1, 1916, sold for scrapping 1921
- Ithuriel — built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, laid down January 14, 1915, launched March 18, 1916, completed August 2, 1916, sold for scrapping 1921
- Kempenfelt — built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, laid down October 2, 1914, launched May 1, 1915, completed August 20, 1915, sold for scrapping 1921
- Lightfoot — built by J. Samuel White, Cowes, laid down June 9, 1914, launched May 28, 1915, completed May 29, 1915, sold for scrapping 1921
- Marksman — built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, laid down July 20, 1914, launched April 28, 1915, completed November 18, 1915, sold for scrapping 1921
- Nimrod — built by William Denny and Brothers Limited, Dumbarton, laid down October 9 1914, launched April 12, 1915, completed August 25, 1915, sold for scrapping 1926
[edit] Bibliography
- Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, Maurice Cocker, 1983, Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
- Jane's Fighting Ships, 1919, Jane's Publishing
