Hawthorn M class
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| Hawthorn M- class | |
 The HMS Mansfield |
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| Overview | |
| Type | destroyer |
| units | 2 |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 1913 |
| Launch |
Mentor : August 21, 1914 Mansfield : December 3, 1914 |
| Commissioning | 1915 |
| Whereabouts | both sold for demolition in 1921 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement | |
| length |
overall: 82.6 m (271 ft ) |
| width |
8.4 m (27.5 ft) |
| Draft |
3.2 m (10.5 ft) |
| crew |
76 men |
| drive |
Yarrow steam boiler , |
| speed |
35 kn |
| Armament |
3 × 4 "-102 mm Mk.IV gun |
| Fuel supply |
300 ts of heating oil |
The Hawthorn M or Mansfield class was a class of two destroyers , by Hawthorn Leslie and Company in Hebburn on Tyne with funds from the Vorkriegsbauprogramms 1913-1914 for the Royal Navy was built. The two boats were the only four-chimney destroyers of the M-type, which finally comprised 110 boats in all variants due to the outbreak of the World War .
According to the Admiralty's draft of a three-chimney destroyer for the financial year 1913/1914, two boats were ordered from Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company in Hebburn on Tyne, one from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in Wallsend and three from John Brown & Company , Clydebank . The six Admiralty M-Class boats were delivered by February 1915.
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In addition, three boats of the so-called Yarrow-M-class with two chimneys and two shafts, and
two boats of the Thornycroft-M-class with a thicker, middle chimney were ordered as the last pre-war orders.
draft
The two ships were similar to the Admiralty M-Class ships built according to the designs of the Admiralty , but were completed according to modified plans by Hawthorn, Leslie & Company in Hebburn on Tyne. The first boat built by Hawthorn, the HMS Mentor , was launched as the 5th "M destroyer" after two Yarrow boats, a Thornycroft boat and an Admiralty boat built by Palmer. In contrast to the "standard" Admiralty M-class, the Hawthorn M-class boats had four funnels and were only slightly longer than the standard boats . The 4 "gun on the central nave was mounted between the second and third chimneys. Both ships were laid down in 1913 and put into service in 1915. Neither of them was lost in the war.
Note:
Hawthorn Leslie did not receive any further orders for destroyers at the beginning, as the shipyard already had the light cruisers HMS Carysfort and Champion as well as the flotilla commander Marksman under construction and the Royal Navy decided to use the four Talisman destroyers that were being prepared for Turkey. To have class built at the shipyard. Another order for destroyers of the M-class was not placed until the last batch in May 1915 with the orders for HMS Pidgeon and Plover . The ships were built in the improved version of the standard Admiralty M- class draft.
Hawthorn M- class boats
The two boats came to Harwich Force after their completion in 1914/15 , where they formed the 10th destroyer flotilla with other early M-boats . They then moved to the canal and both boats were involved in the first raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend in April 1918. While Mentor was securing the monitors bombarding the coast , Mansfield was towing a submarine near Zeebrugge.
- HMS Mentor - BauN ° 468, launched on August 21, 1914, participation in the battle on the Dogger Bank in January 1915, lost in August in the North Sea by torpedo hit by B 98 foremost bow section, in March 1917 relocated to the 6th destroyer flotilla of Dover Patrol , im April 1919 to the reserve at Devonport, sold for scrapping on May 9, 1921.
- HMS Mansfield - BauN ° 469, launched on December 3, 1914, May 1915 to June 1917 with the Harwich Force ( 10th DF ), then to the 6th DF of the Dover Patrol , in March 1919 to the reserve in the Nore, on October 26, 1921 sold for scrapping.
literature
- Maurice Cocker: Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981. Ian Allan, London 1981, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7 .
Web links
- destroyers_before_1900 3 pictures of both boats
- Hawthorn-M class
Individual references / comments
- ↑ Palmers had acquired the former Stephenson shipyard in the neighborhood of "Hawthorn Leslie"