HMS Turbulent (1916)

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Talisman-class destroyer
Destroyer of Talisman class
Overview
Type destroyer
Shipyard

Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. , Hebburn , Building No. 480

Keel laying January 9, 1915
Launch January 5, 1916
Commissioning May 12, 1916
Whereabouts Sunk on June 1, 1916 in the Battle of the Skagerrak
Technical specifications
displacement

Standard : 1098  ts

length

overall: 94.2 m (309 ft)

width

8.7 m (28.5 ft)

Draft

2.9 m (9.5 ft)

crew

102 men

drive

Yarrow steam boiler ,
Parsons turbines
25,000 PSw on 3 shafts

speed

32 kn

Armament

5 - 4 "-102 mm Mk.IV guns,
2 × 2 21 in-533 mm torpedo tubes

Fuel supply

238 ts of heating oil

Sister boats

HMS Talisman , HMS Termagant , HMS Trident

The HMS Turbulent was a destroyer of Talisman class of the Royal Navy . The boat was originally supposed to be called HMS Ogre , but was renamed on February 15, 1915 during construction and, like the three sister ships, was given a name beginning with a T.
She sank on June 1, 1916 in the final phase of the Skagerrak Battle with the loss of the entire crew after only 20 days of active service.

Building history

The Talisman- class was a series of four destroyers , the construction of which was prepared for the Turkish Navy at the outbreak of World War I, based on a private design by the Hawthorn, Leslie & Company shipyard in Hebburn near Newcastle . The building plans were taken over by the Royal Navy and completed for the war effort. Contrary to the names Napier , Narborough , Offa and Ogre originally intended by the Royal Navy , the four boats were given names beginning with "T" in February 1915.

The Talisman-class boats were longer than their Royal Navy contemporaries at shallower drafts . Because of their size, they were often used as flotilla leaders . With five 102mm guns, they were heavily armed for their time and class. Notwithstanding the designs of the Royal Navy and possibly comparable to the Flottillenführern originally for Chile certain Faulknor class and the single copy HMS Swift was the placement of two juxtaposed guns on the foredeck. The remaining guns were mounted between the first and second funnels, behind the platform for the searchlight and on a pedestal on the quarterdeck. All guns were protected by half-shields.

Mission history

The Turbulent was the last boat in the class to enter service on May 12, 1916. She was part of a combined flotilla that had been formed by the 9th and 10th destroyer flotillas stationed in Harwich to protect the battlecruisers of the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron. Run by Commander Goldsmith on HMS Lydiard , this flotilla included, in addition to the Turbulent, her sister boat HMS Termagant , which has also only been in service for a short time , the destroyers Landrail , Laurel and Liberty of the L-class and the Moorsom and Morris of the Admiralty M-class . During the night, the flotilla formed the westernmost unit of the British fleet together with four boats of the 13th destroyer flotilla, which happened to be attached and had fired their torpedoes during the daytime battles when they almost ran into the German I. Squadron. The German ships broke through the destroyer line, whereby the top ship, the SMS Westfalen , hit the destroyer HMS Petard with its medium artillery and sank the HMS Turbulent by ramming at 2:05 a.m. She sank immediately with her crew of 90 men.

The place where the Turbulent went down is now a protected space under the Protection of Military Remains Act of 1986.

Fate of the Talisman- class boats

Surname Construction no. Launch in service fate
talisman 477 07/15/1915 01/19/1916 February 1916 "11. Submarine Flotilla ", April 1918" 3. Destroyer Flotilla ”, March 1919 Nore, March 18, 1920 Reserve, May 9, 1921 sold for demolition to TW Ward Ltd of Grays , Essex
Termagant 478 08/26/1915 03/18/1916 November 1916 "10. Submarine Flotilla ”, November 1917“ Dover Patrol ”, October 17, 1919 Reserve, May 9, 1921 for demolition at TW Ward Ltd in Briton Ferry near Port Talbot
Trident 479 11/20/1915 03/28/1916 May 1916 "11. Submarine Flotilla ”, November 1917“ Dover Patrol ”, March 1919 Nore, March 1, 1920 Reserve, May 9, 1921 sold for demolition to TW Ward Ltd in Grays , Essex
Turbulent 480 05/01/1916 05/12/1916 06/01/1916 in the Battle of Jutland sunk

literature

  • Geoffrey Bennett: The Skagerrakschlacht , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich (1976), ISBN 3-453-00618-6
  • Maurice Cocker: Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981. Ian Allan, London 1981, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
  • Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bennett, p. 165
  2. ^ Bennett, p. 166
  3. ↑ 2nd version of the end: Hit
    by 15 cm bullets of the "Westfalen" and other battleships and then sunk by torpedo from V 71 , 96 dead. so is the history of British destroyers