S-Class (1917)
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| S class | |
 HMS Shamrock 1920 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | destroyer |
| units | 67 |
| Shipyard |
9 John Brown , Clydebank |
| Order | April and June 1917 |
| Keel laying | from May 1917 |
| Launch | from January 26, 1918 HMS Simoom |
| Commissioning | March 1918 Simoom to April 1924 Shikari |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement | |
| length |
84.1 m (276 ft) above sea level |
| width |
8.1 m (26.75 ft) |
| Draft |
3.0 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| crew |
90 men |
| drive |
3 Yarrow boilers, |
| speed |
36 kn |
| Range |
2750 nm at 15 kn |
| Armament |
3 × 102 mm-L / 40 Mk.IV guns |
| Fuel supply |
250-300 ts of oil |
The S-Class was a class of destroyers ordered by the Royal Navy in 1917 when it was realized that the war against Germany did not necessarily require the larger V- and W-Class destroyers . Destroyers the size of the Modified Admiralty R-class would be sufficient for the war against the Central Powers. The revised design was initially referred to as a modified Trenchant class after the first destroyer of this variant built by White . Because of the overall considerable changes, the destroyers ordered in 1917 were assigned to a class of their own.
The Thornycroft and Yarrows shipyards, which specialize in destroyers , also built variants of this type according to their own plans.
Building history
After the Navy realized that the Imperial Navy was not producing large-scale destroyers in large numbers, the order for further destroyers of the V- and W-Class was dispensed with and the orders from April and June 1917 went back to the previously built smaller type. The changes that were quite extensive due to the war experience with the L , M and R-Class were combined in February 1917 into a new official draft of an S-Class, which also made the return to the older development series clear. The newly ordered destroyers were to be given all names that began with "S" or "T". However, forty R-class destroyers had already been given names that began with "S" or "T" and the names of eight R-class ships even began with "U".
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Construction of the new destroyer began in April / May 1917, when the first keel-laying took place at John Brown, Thornycroft and Yarrow. The first ship of the new class was the Simoom in Clydebank on January 26, 1918 , which was also the first S-class destroyer to enter service in the Navy in April 1918. Her name predecessor was an R-class destroyer built at the same shipyard, which was sunk on January 23, 1917 as the first R-class ship. A number of other destroyers were also given names of war casualties. All thirteen commissioned shipyards had previously built destroyers for the Royal Navy, seven of them had built the eleven ships of the immediate predecessor model .
All S-Class destroyers had two chimneys of almost the same height and a long foredeck, the sides of which were arched and behind which there was a high bridge house on the main deck. They had a high foremast and a short aft main mast. Most of the boats were powered by three Yarrow boilers and two sets of Brown Curtis geared turbines . Only the five destroyers built by White received White-Forster type boilers; the four Palmer boats and two of the ships built by Swan Hunter were equipped with Parsons turbines.
The new vessels ranged in length from 275 to 276 ft overall and 265 ft (80.77 m) between perpendiculars . They thus corresponded to the predecessor types since the Laforey class. Also the width of 26 ft 8 in (8.12 m) and the normal draft of 9 ft did not distinguish the new destroyers from their predecessors. The two geared turbine sets could generate up to 27,000 HP and drove two propellers. They gave the destroyers a theoretical maximum speed of 36 knots . The displacement of the destroyers was 1075 long tons with normal payload and 1220 long tons with full payload.
The armament of the destroyers consisted of three 4 in-102 mm Mk.IV rapid fire guns on the center line of the ships (one on the forecastle, one between the funnels and one aft on a raised platform). There was also a single 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" flak in front of the main mast and two torpedo tube twin sets for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes one behind the other on the aft section. In front of the bridge house, the first newbuildings initially had two single light torpedo tubes for 14-inch (?) Torpedoes, which had a very limited fire area to the front, but did not prove themselves in use and were soon removed from almost all ships. The crew of the ships should be 90 men.
A total of 67 S-class destroyers were ordered by the Royal Navy in early April and late June 1917. Despite the few innovations and the shipyards' familiarity with the basic design, only a part of the two orders had been completed by the end of the war.
Yarrow S-Class
Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow-Scotstoun built seven S-Class destroyers on orders from April and June 1917 as specials , which were completed between May 1918 and December 1919. These destroyers again had no geared turbines like the specials that were ordered and built at the same time as the R-Class. The Yarrow-S destroyers were smaller than the Admiralty Draft destroyers, displacing 930 t at a length of 269 ft 6 in (82.14 m) overall, 260 ft 3 in (79.3 m) (pp), a width of 2 ft 9 in (7.84 m) and a draft of 9 ft (2.75 m). The fuel supply of the boats was about 50 ts less than the standard constructions with 200 to a maximum of 256 tons. The approximately 2 m shorter destroyers had a shorter foredeck and the typical sloping stern of most of the destroyers built by Yarrow.
Thornycroft S-Class
The John I. Thornycroft & Company shipyard in Southampton-Woolston was also allowed to build its five construction contracts according to modified designs as "specials". The Thornycroft-S destroyers, completed between August 1918 and December 1919, displaced 1087 tons and were slightly larger than the ships of the Admiralty Draft. They were 275 ft 9 in overall length (266 ft 9 in pp), 27 ft 4 in wide and had a normal draft of 9 ft. The fuel supply could be up to 350 ts. There were no deviations in the machinery and weapons equipment. The gun on the foredeck, however, had a slightly elevated position, the funnels were also slightly higher and the destroyers came a bit higher out of the water than the destroyers according to the Admiralty draft. The Thornycroft boats Tobago and Speedy exceeded 38 knots in their test drives.
Use until 1939
At the time of the armistice, 27 ships of the class were with task forces of the Royal Navy: in the Grand Fleet,
the 12th Destroyer Flotilla with Scimitar , Scotsman, Scout , Scythe, Seabear, Sepoy, Simoom, Sirdar, Speedy, Tomahawk, Torch, Trinidad and Tryphon had thirteen S. -Destroyer next to Mischief and Munster of the M-class as well as Vivien , Waterhen , Winchester , Wolsey , wrestlers of the V- and W-class and the " leaders " Saumarez and Valhalla available;
the 14th Destroyer Flotilla with Saber , Seafire, Seraph, Somme, Sparrowhawk, Splendid, Tactician and Tobago eight S-destroyers in addition to 22 of the M-Class, one of the R-Class and three destroyers of the V- and W-Class as well as the Leaders Vampire and Anzac in action.
In addition, the 10th Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force had the Swallow of the S-Class and with Senator, Sikh, Shark, Tilbury and Tribune there were five more with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet in Mudros .
Five other destroyers of the class were in the acceptance and training process shortly before they were assigned to task forces ( Searcher, Sportive, Tara, Trojan and Tumult ).
From March to May 1919 there was a destroyer division under Commander A.B. Cunningham on the Seafire with Scotsman , Scout and Seabear in the Baltic Sea with the squadron of Rear Admiral Walter Cowan and supported the Latvian independence movement against attacks by German troops and units of the White Russians , partly together with the flotilla leader and fast mine- layer Abdiel .
In July 1919, the 6th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet was the only flotilla in the Navy that was fully operational with 16 destroyers of the S-Class. The 7th Destroyer Flotilla stationed in Rosyth was also only equipped with destroyers of the S-class; but only five of the 16 destroyers were fully equipped and equipped. The 3rd DF of the Atlantic Fleet and the 4th DF of the Home Fleet three more S-destroyers were used. Three others were auxiliary ships from various schools. Others were in the Nore , Portsmouth and Plymouth in reserve and ten ships of the class were still under construction.
In the course of 1920 the S-destroyers of the 7th DF supported the troop movements of the White Troops in the Russian Civil War in the Black Sea . Most of the time, the destroyers had to secure the evacuation of white troops who had to evacuate Odessa , Novorossiysk and the Crimea . During these missions, she ran into a mine in Tobago on November 12th, the explosion of which tore a large hole in the destroyer's engine room. The cruiser Calypso towed the badly damaged destroyer to Istanbul , where emergency repairs were carried out to transfer the Tobago to the naval shipyard in Malta . The battleship Centurion towed the destroyer to the British main base in the Mediterranean, where the examination of the ship showed that it would be completely uneconomical to repair the ship.
In 1921 the British destroyer flotillas were reorganized. The flotillas consisted of one leader and eight destroyers. The S-Class destroyers were organized in the Mediterranean Fleet in the 7th and 8th Flotilla , made up of the "leader" Stuart and the destroyers Shark , Sikh , Sepoy , Trinidad , Tribune , Spear , Sparrowhawk and Senator (7th DF) respectively the leader Montrose and the destroyers Sidar , Sportive , Splendid , Tourmaline , Seraph , Serapis , Somme and Swallow (8th DF) formed.
In addition to the 16 destroyers of the two Mediterranean flotillas, four other destroyers of the class were in active service with the Navy in January 1923. Seawolf and Tilbury formed Queenstown Command to secure Irish treaty ports ; Tara and Truant served as tenders at the Torpedo School in Devonport and Portsmouth, respectively .
The Shikari , which was the last ship of the class to be commissioned in April 1924 as a radio control boat for a remote-controlled target ship , was not yet completed .
In addition to the aforementioned Tobago , the Royal Navy had lost four other destroyers of the class in accidents off the Anatolian coast with Tryphon in May 1919, Stonehenge in November 1920, and Senator and Speedy in September 1922. For this purpose, she had given five destroyers to the Royal Australian Navy in January 1920: Stalwart , Success , Swordsman , Tasmania and Tattoo . The other ships were in reserve after a short or no period of service in Nore (8 ships), Portsmouth (9), Plymouth (16) and Malta (4).
The 7th Flotilla joined the Atlantic Fleet in July 1923 in July 1923; at home it was renamed the 9th Flotilla in 1925 and became part of the fleet reserve in February 1926. The 8th Flotilla was transferred home in October 1923 and became part of the Atlantic Fleet with a reduced crew . In 1927 the flotilla was reactivated to protect the British branches, especially in Shanghai , at China Station . In the same year the Royal Navy gave the Thornycroft-S-Specials Torbay and Toreador to the Royal Canadian Navy , which they took into service as HMCS Champlain and Vancouver .
In October 1930 the “Leader” Bruce belonged to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla (China Station) ; Sepoy, Seraph, Sirdar, Somme, Serapis, Sterling, Stormcloud and Thracian . In addition to these eight destroyers of the 8th Flotilla, four other S-destroyers served as guard ships: Splendid and Tourmaline in Gibraltar and Seawolf and Scythe in the Irish contract ports. With Shikari , Tara , Truant and Sesame, four other S-class ships were used for auxiliary tasks . In the reserve there were three ships of the class in Plymouth, one in Nore, three in Portsmouth and 27 in Rosyth.
In 1931, the S-class destroyers in the 8th Flotilla in China were replaced by V- and W-class ships. The S destroyers brought home were decommissioned there. In 1933 the active time of the S-Class reached its low point when only five of this class were still in active service: Shamrock and Searcher were now as guard ships in Gibraltar, Shikari served as radio control boat and Stronghold and Sardonyx were tenders in Portsmouth. From 1936 there was an additional task for destroyers of the class with the formation of the Local Hongkong Flotilla , to which the Thrakian in 1936 and in 1937 Tenedos , Thanet and Scout were assigned. Eight of the old destroyers were to be stationed in Hong Kong by 1940.
Of the 67 completed S-class destroyers, the Royal Navy lost four to damage on active service between 1919 and 1922:
- Tryphon , which was stranded off Tenedos on May 5, 1919, took months to dismantle, repair was no longer economical, a turbine set was installed in Tomahawk
- Stonehenge , which ran aground on November 6, 1920 near Smyrna;
- Tobago , which was hit by a mine in the Black Sea on November 12, 1920; them before.
- Senator , who ran aground near Smyrna on September 4, 1922 as well
- Speedy , which sank on September 24, 1922 after a collision in the Sea of Marmara .
With Fairfield's Spear and Sikh as well as the Yarrow specials Tomahawk , Tumult and Torch , five more were canceled in the 1920s.
When the London Naval Treaty came into effect in late 1930 , it limited the Royal Navy's destroyer fleet to 150,000 tons. Since the Navy procured newbuildings, older ships had to be sorted out and demolished because of the upper limit. Since the V- and W-Class units were judged to be more usable, S-Class destroyers in particular were sold for demolition (thirteen in 1931, nine in 1932, six in 1934 and ten in 1935). Although the London contract expired in 1936, further sales followed in 1936, 1937 and 1938, also because 24 older destroyers of various classes were given as scrap substitutes for the purchase of the Majestic intended for demolition .
In the end, only eleven S-class destroyers remained, which were then used in World War II, six of which were in European waters when the war broke out ( Shikari , Saber , Sturdy , Scimitar , Saladin , Sardonyx ) and five in the Far East ( Thanet , Thracian , Tenedos , Scout and Stronghold still on the march ) were stationed.
Service in the Dominion navies
In June 1919 the British government gave away a number of ships to the Royal Australian Navy as a core for the modernization of their fleet. The main part was the five destroyers of the Admiralty S-class Stalwart , Success , Swordsman , Tasmania and Tattoo , plus the leader Anzac , six submarines of the J-class as well as three mine sweepers of the Flower-class already in Australia (so-called “gift fleet ").
The five destroyers had not yet completed active service. After the Australian Navy had recruited crews as long-term volunteers for the ships, the five destroyers and the Anzac were taken into service with the Australian Navy on January 27, 1920 in Devonport . On February 20, the destroyers began their journey to Australia. A screw damage by the Anzac forced the leader to march back, who then followed the association with the stalwart from March 10 and re-opened in Colombo. The six ships reached Sydney on April 29th .
It was to be the destroyer's last trip abroad. They spent most of their time in the reserve or in the sea around Sydney. The poor economic situation after the World War led to such a tight budget that the boats at most - and even this seldom - ran as far as the former German New Guinea . There were usually only three boats in service. Stalwart , who had visited New Guinea in June / July 1924, had been in the reserve since December 1, 1925; Tasmania since January 9, 1928; Swordsman since December 21, 1929 and Success since March 21, 1930. Tattoo , who had visited New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in September 1932, was still used for training trips until June 1936, although the Australian Navy had been with the since December 1933 HMAS Stuart and the destroyers Vampire , Vendetta , Voyager and Waterhen had a new destroyer association.
On June 4, 1937, the five Australian S-class destroyers were sold for demolition, which took place in the Sydney district of Balmain, the cannibalized hulls of Swordsman and Stalwart were sunk off Sydney in 1939.
see also HMAS Swordsman with further sources
The two Thornycroft specials Torbay and Toreador were awarded to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1927 . They replaced the previously loaned destroyers Patrician and Patriot of the Thornycroft M-class . They entered service in Portsmouth as Champlain and Vancouver on March 1, 1928 , and then arrived in Canada in May. At the same time, the Canadian Navy ordered two newbuildings with HMCS Saguenay and Skeena from Thornycroft, which were delivered in 1931.
Champlain was stationed on the east coast of Canada, Vancouver was relocated to the west coast of the Pacific. Both carried out training sessions with the reservists and also took part in the spring exercises of the Home Fleet in the Caribbean . The two destroyers were decommissioned on November 25, 1936 and canceled in Canada in 1937. As a replacement, the Royal Canadian Navy acquired C-class destroyers , from which HMCS Fraser and St. Laurent (ex Crescent and Cygnet ) were taken over on February 17 .
Service in World War II
When the war broke out, Thanet , Thracian , Tenedos and Scout formed the Hong Kong Destroyer Flotilla. On the way to this flotilla was the Stronghold , which left Malta on September 2 on the way to Singapore via Suez. At home, Shikari , the unarmed radio control ship for the remote-controlled target ship Centurion , was in Devonport and Saber , a target ship that had been disarmed for air strikes at sea since 1938, in Scapa Flow, both of which had to be armed again in order to be used as escort destroyers. Sturdy and Saladin were part of the Portsmouth reserve, where Sardonix and Scimitar continued to serve with the port flotilla after a major reservist exercise in the summer. Sturdy , Scimitar and Sardonyx were to be relocated to Hong Kong in 1939/40 and to form a complete flotilla there.
Operations in European waters
 The Scimitar as a destroyer escort in 1941
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The six S-class destroyers available at home had to be prepared for the planned missions as escort destroyers and were then used for various smaller tasks in the British coastal area. The Sturdy was supposed to leave for East Asia in 1939 and began the journey in November with the old aircraft carrier Argus , which was relocated to the Mediterranean to train British carrier pilots off Toulon . Sturdy stayed in the Mediterranean and served the carrier as a security destroyer until he withdrew in June 1940. In May 1940, Saber , Scimitar and Shikari belonged to the 16th Destroyer Flotilla in Harwich and Saladin to the 11th Destroyer Flotilla in Devonport; the sardonyx was being overhauled at a private shipyard. The four operational destroyers were involved in Operation Dynamo from May 28, 1940 . On the second day Saladin was badly damaged by a German air raid and was out of action. On the 30th Saber was bombed, on the 31st also Scimitar , on June 1st Shikari was damaged and Saber again on June 2nd. Saber, with ten trips and almost 6,000 evacuees, was one of the most successful units deployed in the evacuation of Dunkirk, Scimitar evacuated 2,716 men on six trips, Shikari 3,349 men on seven trips and it was the last unit of the Royal Navy to enter Dunkirk early in the morning Left June 4, 1940 when German troops had approached within 5 km of the port.
During the subsequent evacuations of Allied forces and important people from other French ports such as Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest, the destroyers were deployed again, as far as operational.
The S-destroyers then formed the 22nd Destroyer Flotilla in Portsmouth in June 1940 , which also included the Skate , the last R-destroyer in the Navy, and the Acheron , which was to be used in the canal against a German invasion attempt. But already in the autumn the old destroyers were used for safety operations on incoming and outgoing convoys. During such a mission, the Sturdy was shipwrecked on the west coast of Scotland in a heavy storm on October 30th.
The destroyers were gradually converted for these missions against submarines. Except for the 102 mm bow gun, they gave up their artillery and torpedo armament. For defense against aircraft, they received two heavy machine-gun quadruplets standing next to each other and a 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun in place of the front torpedo tube set and on the stern eight depth charges and two drainage rails for depth charges, of which up to 70 were carried. In addition, the destroyers were equipped with sonar and until 1942 also radar devices. The conversion increased the displacement of the destroyers to up to 1400 ts. This overload caused poor sea behavior by the destroyers in the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic. The destroyers were used by various escort groups from Londonderry. From 1942 to 1944 they then formed the 21st Escort Group stationed on Iceland, which not only deployed on convoy but also in mine-laying operations for the Northern Barrage . Their armament was changed again by replacing the anti-aircraft machine gun quadruplets with four individual 20 mm Oerlikon cannons and reducing the depth of the depth charges. Only the Scimitar was granted participation in the sinking of a submarine: she was involved in securing convoy HX 133 on June 29, 1941 in the destruction of U 651 at 59º52'N, 18º36'W south of Iceland together with the destroyer Malcolm , the corvettes Arabis and Violet the Flower-class and the minesweepers Speedwell involved.
In 1944 the destroyers were transferred to the British coastal waters and retired from service at the front in August 1944. In May 1945 only Saber was still in active service. After the end of the war in Europe, the five S-class destroyers available here were decommissioned and sold for demolition.
Operations in the Far East
When the war in Europe broke out, Thanet and Thracian were in Hong Kong, while Tenedos and Scout were on their way to Singapore to set up defensive mine barriers in the event of war. In order to have space for about 40 mines, the destroyers had given their rear guns and torpedo tube sets on board.
 The Stronghold 1939
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Both destroyers began to design the planned barriers on September 4, 1939. Scout resumed normal inspection drives after a week and returned to Hong Kong in October. Tenedos laid defensive mines until the 17th, then stayed in Singapore with the Stronghold, who arrived a few days later, and was converted into an anti-submarine destroyer in November. Stronghold was the last reinforcement of the Hong Kong flotilla ; Sturdy , Scimitar and Sardonyx , which were also to be moved there by 1940, remained in Europe (see above).
When Japan attacked the Allies in December 1941, Thanet and Scout managed to leave Hong Kong in time. The Thracian left behind took part in the unsuccessful defense of the crown colony and was sunk herself at Christmas 1941.
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After the cancellation of a visit by the Repulse with destroyer escort in Australia, Tenedos belonged to Force Z from December 8 , which sailed from Singapore to defend the Japanese landing force against Malaya . When on December 10, 1941 Repulse and Prince of Wales of Force Z were destroyed from the air, Tenedos had already left the association due to lack of fuel.
Scout followed the Force Z with four US destroyers. Their departure was too late to save the shipwrecked. Scout found the repulse walrus that had crashed and dragged it to Singapore.
Coming from Hong Kong, Thanet and Scout ran via the Dutch Tarakan on Borneo to Singapore. The allies, which were forced on the defensive by the loss of the capital ships, subsequently secured the reinforcement and supply convoys as well as the evacuation of civilians from the British areas that were attacked by the Japanese, whereby Scout and Tenedos of the Western Striking Force of the ABDA were subordinated, while Thanet and Stronghold primarily carried out security tasks to protect the aforementioned transports.
On January 27, 1942, Thanet was lost when she and the Australian Vampire tried to attack Japanese transporters off the east coast of Malaysia near Endau . Thanet sank in the fire of a fuse group led by the light cruiser Sendai with four large destroyers, while Vampire escaped.
The Stronghold was sunk on March 2, 1942 south of Java at 12 ° 20'S / 112 ° 00 'E by the heavy cruiser Maya and two destroyers when she tried to escape from Tjilatjap to Australia. 50 survivors who were rescued by a Dutch ship were nevertheless taken prisoner by the Japanese because they were given to the Maya .
Scout and Tenedos managed to escape to Ceylon in March 1942. There, the not operational Tenedos was sunk on April 5, 1942 in Colombo by Japanese carrier aircraft .
Scout was at sea with most of the Eastern Fleet's units during the Japanese attack and eventually moved to Kilindini with the Revenge-class battleships . The destroyer remained in service in the Indian Ocean until December 1943 to secure transports against submarines. A planned repair of the destroyer in Bombay was canceled after a short time because it no longer seemed economically viable. The Scout was therefore prepared as a residential ship and served the destroyers of the Eastern Fleet with the Woolwich tender in Trincomalee from summer 1944 until the end of the war in East Asia. In December 1945 the Scout then moved back home, where it was immediately sold for demolition, which began in March 1946.
Thracian in Japanese service
The Thracian , sunk in shallow water in Hong Kong , was lifted by the Japanese in July 1942 and put into service as patrol boat No. 101 (第 101 号 哨 戒 艇) on November 25, 1942 for the Japanese fleet. The former destroyer was newly armed and only uses two boilers, which reduced engine performance and only allowed a top speed of 25 knots.
The booty ship was placed under the Yokosuka marine district and secured Japanese coastal traffic in this area. In March 1944, the former Thracian in Yokosuka was used as a training and test ship for Japanese radar systems. After Japan surrendered, the old destroyer was discovered there and returned to the British in Hong Kong in October 1945. In the British Crown Colony, the ship was demolished from February 1946.
The S-Class ships
| Come on | Surname | Shipyard | BuildingN ° | Keel laying | Launch | in service | comment |
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| 4.17 | Simoon G44 / H53 | John Brown | 472 | 05/30/17 | 01/26/18 | 3.18 | in service with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in January 1931 |
| Scimitar G41 / H21 | John Brown | 473 | 05/30/17 | 02/27/18 | 04/13/18 | in the war with the 12th DF , 1947 sold for demolition | |
| Scotsman G30 / H52 | John Brown | 474 | 12/10/17 | 03/18/18 | 05/21/18 | in the war with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in July 1937 | |
| Scout G35 / H51 | John Brown | 475 | 10/25/17 | 04/27/18 | 06/15/18 | in service with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in February 1946 | |
| 6.17 | Scythe G32 / H22 | John Brown | 476 | 01/14/18 | 05/25/18 | 7/8/18 | in the war with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in November 1931 |
| Seabear G29 / H23 | John Brown | 477 | 12/13/17 | 7/6/18 | 9.18 | in the war with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in February 1931 | |
| Seafire G68 / H19 | John Brown | 478 | 02/27/18 | 08/10/18 | 11.17 | during the war with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in September 1936 | |
| Searcher G72 / H20 | John Brown | 479 | 03/30/18 | 09/11/18 | 11.18 | sold for demolition in March 1936 | |
| Seawolf G47 / H07 | John Brown | 480 | 04/30/18 | 2.11.18 | 1.19 | sold for demolition in February 1931 | |
| 4.17 | Tribune F9A / D16 | White | 08/21/17 | 28.03.18 | 07/16/18 | Military service with the 5th DF in the Mediterranean, sold for demolition in December 1931 | |
| Trinidad G38 / D17 | White | 15.09.17 | April 8, 2018 | 9.09.18 | in service with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in February 1932 | ||
| 6.17 | Trojan G66 / H44 | White | 3.01.18 | 07/20/18 | 12/6/18 | sold for demolition in September 1936 | |
| Truant G23 / H98 | White | 02/14/18 | 18.09.18 | 03/17/19 | sold for demolition in November 1931 | ||
| Trusty FA2 / H56 | White | 04/11/18 | 11/6/18 | 05/9/19 | sold for demolition in September 1936 | ||
| 4.17 | Senator G36 / D02 | Denny | 1098 | 07/10/17 | 2.04.18 | 6/7/18 | War mission at 5th DF in the Mediterranean. stranded near Smyrna on September 4, 1922 |
| Sepoy G26 / D03 | Denny | 1099 | 8/6/17 | 05/22/18 | 8/6/18 | in the war with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in July 1932 | |
| Seraph G60 / D04 | Denny | 1100 | 4.10.17 | 7/8/18 | 12/25/18 | during the war with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in May 1934 | |
| 6.17 | Serapis F21 / D58 | Denny | 1101 | 12/4/17 | 17.09.18 | 03/21/19 | sold for demolition in January 1934 |
| Serene F7A / H25 | Denny | 1102 | 2.02.18 | 11/30/18 | 04/30/19 | sold for demolition in September 1936 | |
| Sesame F5A / H35 | Denny | 1103 | 13.03.18 | 12/30/18 | 03/28/19 | sold for demolition in May 1934 | |
| 4.17 | Shark FA1 / D05 | Swan Hunter | 1069 | 09/14/17 | 04/9/18 | 07/10/18 | Military service with the 5th DF in the Mediterranean, sold for demolition in February 1931 |
| Sparrowhawk G53 / D08 | Swan Hunter | 1071 | 09/18/17 | 05/14/18 | 4.09.18 | in the war with the 14th DF , sold for demolition on February 1931 | |
| Splendid G57 / D11 | Swan Hunter | 1073 | 10/24/17 | 07/10/18 | 10/29/18 | in service with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in January 1931 | |
| 6.17 | Tilbury G37 / H38 | Swan Hunter | 1081 | 11.17 | 06/13/18 | 17.09.18 | Military service with the 5th DF in the Mediterranean, sold for demolition in February 1931 |
| Tintagel G51 / H89 | Swan Hunter | 1083 | 12.17 | 8/9/18 | 12.18 | sold for demolition in February 1932 | |
| Sportive G48 / D12 | Swan Hunter | 1085 | 2.18 | 19.09.18 | 12.18 | sold for demolition in September 1936 | |
| Stalwart F4A / H4A | Swan Hunter | 1087 | 4.18 | 23.10.18 | 4.19 | January 27, 1920 RAN , reserve from December 1925, sold for demolition in June 1937 | |
| 4.17 | Sikh H94 / D06 | Fairfield | 571 | 8.17 | May 7, 2018 | 06/29/18 | Military service with the 5th DF in the Mediterranean, sold for demolition in July 1927 |
| Sirdar G27 / D59 | Fairfield | 572 | 08/30/17 | 7/6/18 | 9/6/18 | in service with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in May 1934 | |
| Somme G52 / D07 | Fairfield | 11.17 | 09/10/18 | 11/4/18 | during the war with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in August 1932 | ||
| 6.17 | Spear G55 / D09 | Fairfield | 582 | 3.18 | 11/9/18 | 12/27/18 | sold for demolition in July 1926 |
| Spindrift G21 / H57 | Fairfield | 583 | 4.18 | 12/30/18 | 2.04.19 | sold for demolition in July 1936 | |
| 4.17 | Success F1A / H5A | Doxford | 522 | 17th | 06/29/18 | 4.19 | January 27, 1920 RAN , reserve from May 1930, sold for demolition in June 1937 |
| Shamrock F50 / H06 | Doxford | 524 | 11.17 | 08/26/18 | 16.09.19 | sold for demolition in September 1945 | |
| Shikari D85 | Doxford / Chatham Dy | 526 | 1/15/18 | 07/14/19 | 4.24 | sold for demolition in November 1945 | |
| 4.17 | Swallow F73 / D14 | Scotts | 491 | 9.17 | 1.08.18 | 09/27/18 | War service with the 10th DF, sold for demolition in September 1936 |
| Swordsman F3A / H8A | Scotts | 480 | 17th | 12/28/18 | 3.19 | January 27, 1920 RAN , from December 1929 reserve, sold for demolition in June 1937 | |
| 6.17 | Strenuous G64 / H03 | Scotts | 493 | 3.18 | 11/9/18 | 1.19 | sold for demolition in August 1932 |
| Stronghold F8A / H50 | Scotts | 494 | 3.18 | 5/6/19 | 2.07.19 | Sunk on March 4, 1942 south of Java | |
| Sturdy F96 / H28 | Scotts | 495 | 4.18 | 11/9/18 | 10/15/19 | stranded near Tiree on October 30, 1940 . | |
| 4.17 | Steadfast F99 / H37 | Palmers | 881 | 9.17 | 08/08/18 | 3.19 | sold for demolition in July 1934 |
| Sterling FA3 / H31 | Palmers | 882 | 10.17 | 08/08/18 | 3.19 | sold for demolition in August 1932 | |
| 6.17 | Stonehenge F99 / H37 | Palmers | 887 | 3.18 | 03/19/19 | 3.19 | Accumulated on November 6, 1920 near Smyrna, total loss |
| Stormcloud D89 / H05 | Palmers | 888 | 5.18 | 05/30/19 | 01/28/20 | sold for demolition in July 1934 | |
| 4.17 | Saber G56 / H18 | Stephen | 487 | 09/10/17 | 23.09.18 | 11/9/18 | during the war with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in November 1945 |
| Saladin F0A / H54 | Stephen | 488 | 09/10/17 | 02/17/19 | 04/11/19 | sold for demolition in June 1947 | |
| 6.17 | Sardonyx F34 / H26 | Stephen | 03/25/18 | 05/27/19 | 07/12/19 | sold for demolition in September 1945 | |
| Saturn u. Sycamore | Stephen | Orders canceled in 1919 | |||||
| 6.17 | Turbulent F55 / H34 | Hawthorn Leslie | 509 | 11/14/17 | 05/29/19 | 10/10/19 | sold for demolition in August 1936 |
| Tenedos FA4 / H04 | Hawthorn Leslie | 510 | 12/6/17 | 10/21/18 | 06/11/19 | Sunk in Colombo on April 5, 1942, scrapped in 1944 | |
| Thanet G24 / H29 | Hawthorn Leslie | 511 | 12/13/17 | 11/5/18 | 08/10/19 | Sunk off Endau on January 27, 1942 | |
| Thracian GA4 / D86 | Hawthorn Leslie / Sheerness | 512 | 01/17/18 | 5.03.20 | 04/21/20 | Sunk in Hong Kong in 1941, in Japanese service in October 1942, scrapped from February 1946 | |
| 6.17 | Tactician G54 / H99 | Beardmore | 589 | 11/21/17 | 8/7/18 | 23.10.18 | in service with the 14th DF , sold for demolition in February 1931 |
| Tara G62 / H92 | Beardmore | 590 | 11/21/17 | 10/12/18 | 12/9/18 | sold for demolition in December 1931 | |
| Tasmania G97 / H7A | Beardmore | 591 | 12/18/17 | 11/22/18 | 01/29/19 | January 27, 1920 RAN , from January 1928 reserve, sold for demolition in June 1937 | |
| Tattoo F2A / H6A | Beardmore | 592 | 12/21/17 | 12/28/18 | April 7, 2019 | January 27, 1920 RAN , deleted June 19, 1936, sold for demolition in June 1937 | |
| 4.17 | Torch G33 / D15 | Yarrow | 1425 | 4.17 | 16.03.18 | 05/11/18 | during the war with the 12th DF , sold for demolition in November 1929 |
| Tomahawk G34 / D79 | Yarrow | 1426 | 4.17 | 05/11/18 | 7/8/18 | in the war with the 12th DF , received a turbine set from the Tryphon in 1922 , sold for demolition in June 1928 | |
| Tryphon G42 | Yarrow | 1427 | 4.17 | 06/22/18 | 9.18 | During the war with the 12th DF , stranded off Tenedos on May 5, 1919, scrapped in 1920 due to inefficiency of a repair | |
| 6.17 | Tumult G58 / D18 | Yarrow | 6.17 | 17.09.18 | 12.18 | sold for demolition in October 1928 | |
| Turquuoise G22 / H02 | Yarrow | 1437 | 6.17 | 11/9/18 | 3.19 | sold for demolition in January 1932 | |
| Tuscan FA5 / D80 | Yarrow | 1438 | 6.17 | 1.03.19 | 06/24/19 | sold for demolition in August 1932 | |
| Tyrian D84 / H01 | Yarrow | 1439 | 6.17 | 2.07.19 | 23.12.19 | sold for demolition in February 1930 | |
| 4.17 | Speedy G36 | Thornycroft | 961 | 5.17 | 1.06.18 | 08/14/18 | at war with the 12th DF , on 24 September 1922 collision in the Sea of Marmara dropped |
| Tobago G61 | Thornycroft | 962 | 5.17 | 07/15/18 | 10/2/2018 | During the war with the 14th DF , hit a mine in the Black Sea on November 12, 1920, scrapped due to inefficiency of repair | |
| 6.17 | Torbay F35 / H24 | Thornycroft | 968 | 11.17 | 3/6/19 | 07/17/19 | March 1928 RCN : Champlain , sold for demolition in February 1937 |
| Toreador F6A / H55 | Thornycroft | 969 | 11.17 | 12/7/18 | 4.19 | March 1928 RCN : Vancouver , sold for demolition in 1937 | |
| Tourmaline D83 / D10 | Thornycroft | 970 | 1.18 | 04/12/19 | 12.19 | sold for demolition in November 1931 |
literature
- Maurice Cocker: Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981 , Ian Allan 1983, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7 .
- Fred Dittmar, Jim Colledge: British Warships 1914-1919 , Ian Allen 1972, ISBN 0-7110-0380-7 .
Web links
- 8. DISTRIBUTION OF DESTROYERS 1919-1939
- 50 Admiralty "S" Jane´s 1919, p. 103
- 5 Thorneycroft "S" Jane´s 1919, p. 102
- 7 Yarrow "S" Jane´s 1919, p. 102
- "S" Class Destroyer (1918)
- "S" destroyers (SIMOOM) (67 (2), 1918-1924)
- STALWART destroyers (1918-1919 / 1919)
- VANCOUVER destroyers (1919/1928)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 12th DF Grand Fleet November 1918
- ↑ ! 14th DF Grand Fleet November 1918
- ↑ Mallmann: The S class Destroyers 1918-1945 , pp. 258f.
- ^ Tryphon 1918 HMS - Destroyer
- ↑ HMS Stonehenge (+1920)
- ^ "CONWAY'S ALL THE WORLD'S FIGHTING SHIPS, 1906-1921", World War 1 Career Summaries
- ↑ HMS Speedy (+1922)
- ↑ HMCS Vancouver (1st of name) (D05 / F6A / H55) / S-class destroyer
- ↑ HMCS Champlain (1st of the name) (D17 / H24 / H25 / F50)
- ↑ ROYAL NAVY SHIPS, August 1939
- ↑ Kindell: ROYAL NAVY SHIPS, SEPTEMBER 1939
- ^ Geoffrey B Mason: HMS THANET (D 29) - Old S-class Destroyer
- ↑ Gordon Smith: HMS STRONGHOLD (H 50) - Old S-class Destroyer
- ↑ Geoffrey B Mason: HMS TENEDOS (H 04) - Old S-class Destroyer
- ^ Gordon Smith: HMS Scout (H 51) - Old S-class Destroyer
- ^ Ex-British "S" type patrol ship (1922/1942)
- ↑ Kingsepp / Sander / Cundall: IJN Patrol Boat No. 101: Tabular Record of Movement