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HMS Strongbow
was an R Class special destroyer and was built and engineered by
the Yarrow Engineering Company of Glasgow and was launched on the
30th September 1916. She had an overall length of 273’ 3”,
a breadth of 25’ 7” and a draught of 10’ 6”
and with all her equipment, weighed over 11000 tons. Her engines
were geared single reduction turbines powering 2 screws. Her shaft
horsepower was 27000 at 360 revolutions per minute, giving her a
sea speed of 36 knots. The steam for the turbines was produced by
3 Yarrow boilers, each working at 260 pounds per square inch. Her
speed was measured over a known mile at 36 1/2 knots, thereby exceeding
her designed speed. Her breakdown weights are given as:- hull 408
tons, machinery 391 tons, oil 268 tons, armament 40 tons, water
15 tons, general equipment 50 tons and heating oil 4 tons. Her armament
consisted of 3 x 4” quick firing guns, 1 x 2 pounder ‘pom
pom’ gun and 4 x 21” torpedo tubes on her deck. She
carried 230 tons of fuel oil, giving her a range of 2400 nautical
miles at 15 knots. She also carried three smaller boats, two on
her port side and one on her starboard. The whaler, which was 25
ft long and the dingy, which was 13 ft 6 in long were on her port
side and on her starboard side she carried a motor boat which was
20 ft long. During the late stages of her life she also carried
a hydrogen filled observation balloon capable of carrying two men
in a basket. It is thought that this was rigged just in front of
her forward funnel.
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