HMS Fortune (1913)
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HMS Fortune in pre-war black paint, and without pennant number
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| Name: | HMS Fortune |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
| Yard number: | 488 |
| Launched: | 17 March 1913 |
| Fate: | Sunk by SMS Westfalen at Battle of Jutland on 1 June 1916 |
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| Class and type: | Acasta-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,072 t (1,055 long tons) |
| Length: | 267 ft 6 in (81.53 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
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| Speed: | 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Complement: | 73 |
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HMS Fortune was an Acasta-class destroyer, and the twenty-first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was launched in 1913 and was sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
The Acastas were larger and heavier armed than the preceding H and I classes (Acorn and Acheron, respectively), displacing about 25% more and with the mixed calibre armament replaced with a uniform fit of QF 4-inch guns, which the Acastas introduced. Previous 4-inch (102 mm) weapons had been of the breech-loading (BL) type. The guns were shipped one each on the forecastle and either side abreast the after torpedo tube (or amidships before and after the tube in some ships.) All ships had three funnels, the foremost being tall and narrow, the second short and wide and the third level with the second but narrower. The foremost torpedo tube was sited between the second and third funnels, a distinctive feature of this class.
There were twelve 'standard' vessels built to a common Admiralty design, and eight builders' specials that (except for Garland) had a shorter, less beamy hull; five of the latter were from Thornycroft with 22,500 shp (16,800 kW) (one of Thornycroft's ships, Hardy, was planned to diesel cruising motors, but these were not ready in time and Hardy was completed with Thornycroft's standard machinery). One by Parsons (Garland) had semi-geared turbines giving a speed of 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) on trials, with a seventh from Fairfields had a clipper bow. The eighth 'special' was Ardent by William Denny, Dumbarton, which was built using longitudinal framing rather than conventional transverse framing. While Ardent's novel construction seems to have been a success, no more destroyers were built for the Royal Navy using longitudinal framing until the J-class destroyers in the 1930s.
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