HMS Seafire
_IWM_SP_1436.jpg) Seafire circa 1918 | |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Seafire |
| Ordered: | July 1917 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 478[1] |
| Launched: | 10 August 1918 |
| Fate: | Handed over for scrapping on 14 September 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | S-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,075 tons |
| Length: | 276 ft (84 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Propulsion: | Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | 250-300 tons of oil |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Armament: | 3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX 1 × QF 2 pdr Mark II "pom-pom" |
| Notes: | Pennant number: G68 |
HMS Seafire was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was part of the second order of the S class and was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank and launched on 10 August 1918.[1] She saw service during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. She was one of the obsolete destroyers handed over to the shipbreakers Ward in part-payment for RMS Majestic on 14 September 1936, and was then broken up at Inverkeithing.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "HMS Seafire". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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