Thornycroft M class

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Thornycroft M- class
HMS Patrician
HMS Patrician
Overview
Type destroyer
Shipyard

Thornycroft , Woolston-Southampton

Keel laying May / July 1913
June to September 1915
Launch July 24, 1914 to
August 1916
Commissioning between September 1914
and October 1916
Whereabouts from 1921 to 1929
sold for demolition
Technical specifications
displacement

1004 to 1070 ts

length

274  ft (84 m)

width

27.75 ft (8.4 m) Meteor , Mastiff
27.25 ft (8.3 m) all others

Draft

10.5 ft (3.2 m)

crew

82 men

drive

3 Yarrow boilers
2 Parsons turbines
from 3rd boat: Brown Curtis turbines
26,500  HPw , 2 screws

speed

35  kn

Armament
Fuel supply

200-255 ts oil

The Thornycroft-M - or Mastiff-class was a class of destroyers , of which six boats were built for the Royal Navy between 1914 and 1916 at John I. Thornycroft & Company . Two boats were commissioned on February 1, 1913. As part of the war building programs after the beginning of the First World War , orders for two more boats were placed on February 26, 1915 and May 15, 1915. After the end of the war the Royal Canadian Navy bought two boats (HMS Patrician and Patriot ) along with the light cruiser HMS Aurora as the core of their fleet.

draft

The six boats of the Thornycroft-M- class differed greatly from the Admiralty-M- class ships built according to the designs of the Admiralty , although they were based on a draft of the Admiralty, which Thornycroft used as the basis for its own construction plans. Similar to the standard Admiralty M -class , they had three chimneys, but the middle one in the Thornycrofts was significantly thicker. Deviating from the boats of the Admiralty draft, the boats of the Thornycroft-M -type, as well as those of the Yarrow-M-class , were only propelled by two propellers. The 4 "gun on the nave was mounted between the second and third chimneys. The HMS Patriot was able to use an observation balloon .

Thornycroft M-class ships

  • HMS Meteor Baun ° 696 - on On May 8, 1913 keel laid on the 24 July 1914 stack left and completed on 24 July 1914th Sold for scrapping on May 9, 1921.
  • HMS Mastiff BauN ° 697 - laid down on July 10, 1913, launched on September 5, 1914 and completed on November 12, 1914. Sold for scrapping on May 9, 1921.
  • HMS Patrician BauN ° 805 - laid down on June 3, 1915, launched on June 5, 1916 and completed on August 4, 1916. Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in September 1920and scrapped in 1929.
  • HMS Patriot BauN ° 806 - laid down on July 15, 1915, launched on April 20, 1916 and completed on June 27, 1916. Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in September 1920 and sold for scrapping in 1929.
  • HMS Rapid BauN ° 827 - laid down on August 12, 1915, launched on July 15, 1916 and completed on September 19, 1916. Sold for scrapping on April 20, 1927.
  • HMS Ready BauN ° 828 - laid down on September 2, 1915, launched on August 26, 1916 and completed on October 31, 1916. Sold for scrapping on July 13, 1926.

Note : Thornycroft also built six other M-class destroyers for the Royal Navy: HMS Michael , HMS Milbrook , HMS Minion and HMS Munster (BauN ° 773-776), all of which were ordered on September 20, 1914, as well as HMS Nepean and HMS Nereus (BauN ° 789/790), for which the order was placed on November 20, 1914. Construction of the ships began in September 1914 and they were delivered between August 1915 and May 1916.
Since these six were built to the design of the Admiralty M-Class , they are covered in the relevant article.

literature

  • Maurice Cocker: Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981. Ian Allan, London 1981, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
  • Jane's Fighting Ships, 1919. Jane's Publishing.
  • Carl Herbert: War voyages of German merchant ships. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1934.
  • The Thornycroft List. 1981 (unpublished compilation of JIThornycroft records).

Web links

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