S-class destroyer (1917)
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For the S class of destroyers built in 1942–43, see S and T-class destroyer.
The S class (initially known as the Modified Trenchant class[3]) was a class of 67 destroyers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1917 under the 11th and 12th Emergency War Programmes. They saw active service in the last months of the First World War and in the Russian and Irish Civil Wars during the early 1920s. Most were relegated to the reserve by the mid-1920s and subsequently scrapped under the terms of the London Naval Treaty. Eleven survivors saw much action during the Second World War.
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Tenedos underway at high speed, 1921 | |
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Preceded by | R class W class |
Succeeded by | Modified W class |
Subclasses | Thornycroft and Yarrow "specials" |
In commission | 1918–1945 |
Planned | 69 |
Completed | 67 |
Cancelled | 2 |
Lost |
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Length | |
Beam | 26 ft 8 in (8.1 m) |
Draught | 9 ft 10 in (3.0 m) |
Installed power | 27,000 shp (20,134 kW) |
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Speed |
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Range | 2,750 nmi (5,090 km; 3,160 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 90 |
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