Faulknor-class flotilla leader

HMS Broke
Class overview
Operators:	Royal Navy  Chilean Navy
Preceded by:	Medea class
Succeeded by:	Marksman class
Completed:	4
Lost:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Faulknor-class destroyer leader
Displacement:	1,700 tons
Tons burthen:	1,850 tons
Length:	331 ft (101 m) o/a
Beam:	32 ft 6 in (9.91 m)
Draught:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion:	6× White-Forster boilers, steam turbines, 3 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:	403 tons coal, 83 tons oil
Complement:	197 - 205
Armament:	As built: 6 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk VI guns, single mounting P Mk. XI 2 × twin tubes for 21-inch torpedoes (4 × single in Botha) As re-armed: 2 × BL 4.7-inch (120-mm) L/45 Mark I, single mounting CP Mk. VI 2 × QF 2-pounder pom-pom Mk. II, single mounting HA Mk. II 2 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 QF Mark IV guns, single mounting P Mk. IX 2 × twin tubes for 21-in torpedoes

The Faulknor class were a class of flotilla leaders that were under construction in the United Kingdom for the Chilean Navy at the outbreak of World War I. These ships were purchased by the British, taken over and completed for the Royal Navy for wartime service. In common with Royal Navy convention, they were named after famous Royal Navy captains of the past, in this case the members of the Faulknor family.

The six Almirante Lynch-class destroyers were a private design by J. Samuel White that were significantly larger and heavier armed than their contemporaries. They had four funnels, a tall, narrow fore funnel and three broad, short funnels behind. They were initially armed with six single QF 4-inch guns, unusually arranged with four on the forecastle - two sided in front of the wheelhouse and two sided abreast it - the remaining pair being sided on the quarterdeck. These guns were of a novel Elswick design for the Chileans and when the ships were rearmed they were replaced with standard Royal Navy models. As rearmed in 1918 they carried a BL 4.7-inch gun on the forecastle and another on a bandstand between the after pair of funnels, retained the pair of 4-inch (100 mm) guns abreast the wheelhouse and had two QF 2-pounder pom-poms.

The four ships taken over by the Royal Navy were returned to the friendly nation of Chile in 1920, at which point the Thornycroft type leader Rooke was renamed Broke to maintain this famous name (that of Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke of the Shannon) in the Navy List.

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