Acorn class destroyer
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Acorn or H class |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 730 - 780 tons |
| Length: | 246 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in |
| Draught: | 7 - 10 ft |
| Propulsion: | oil-fired boilers, 3 shaft steam turbines, 13,500 shp |
| Speed: | 27 kt |
| Range: | 170 tons oil |
| Complement: | ? |
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The Acorn class (officially rated as the H class in 1913) was a class of twenty destroyers of the Royal Navy completed between 1910 and 1911. The Acorns served during World War I.
After the coal-burning Beagle or G class of 1909, the Acorns marked a return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907. This change allowed a generally smaller vessel than the Beagles even with an increase in armament.
The Acorns had a more-or-less uniform appearance, with three funnels, a tall, thin fore funnel, a short, thick central and a short narrow after stack. They had two 4-inch guns, on the fo'c'sle - which was higher than that of the Beagles, negating the need for a raised bandstand - and on the quarterdeck. The 12-pounder guns were amidships, on sided between the first pair of funnels, and the torpedo tubes were aft of the funnels, mounted singly with a searchlight poisition between them.
Three ships were lost in wartime service.
[edit] Ships
- Acorn — built by Clydebank Shipbuilding Company, Clydebank, completed 1910
- Alarm — built by Clydebank, completed 1910
- Brisk — built by Clydebank, completed 1910
- Chameleon — built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan, completed 1910
- Comet — built by Fairfield, completed 1910, torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat in Mediterranean August 6, 1918
- Fury — built by A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, completed 1911
- Goldfinch — built by Fairfield, completed 1910, wrecked in fog on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkneys on night of 18-19 February 1915
- Hope — built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, completed 1910
- Larne — built by John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, completed 1910
- Lyra — built by Thornycroft, completed 1910
- Martin — built by Thornycroft, completed 1911
- Minstrel — built by Thornycroft, completed 1910, loaned to Imperial Japanese Navy 1917-18 as Sendan
- Nemesis — built by R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn, completed 1910, loaned to Imperial Japanese Navy 1917-18 as Kandan
- Nereide — built by Hawthorn, completed 1910
- Nymphe — built by Hawthorn, completed 1911
- Redpole — built by J. Samuel White & Company, Cowes, completed 1910
- Rifleman — built by White, completed 1910
- Ruby — built by White, completed 1910
- Sheldrake — built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, completed 1911
- Staunch — built by Denny, completed 1910, torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat off Gaza, Palestine November 11, 1917
[edit] Bibliography
- Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, Maurice Cocker, 1983, Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
[edit] See also
| Acorn or H-class destroyer |
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Acorn | Alarm | Brisk | Chameleon | Comet | Fury | Goldfinch | Hope | Larne | Lyra | Martin | Minstrel | Nemesis | Nereide | Nymphe |
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy |
