HMS Recruit (1896)

History
HMS Recruit

Name:	HMS Recruit
Ordered:	1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates
Builder:	J & G Thomson, Clydebank
Laid down:	18 October 1895
Launched:	22 August 1896
Commissioned:	October 1900
Fate:	1 May 1915 sunk by German submarine UB-6 in the southern North Sea
General characteristics
Class and type:	Clydebank three funnel - 30 knot destroyer
Displacement:	380 t (374 long tons) light 425 t (418 long tons) full load
Length:	218 ft (66 m) o/a
Beam:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:	4 × Normand water tube boiler 2 × Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) steam engines driving 2 shafts producing 5,800 shp (4,300 kW)
Speed:	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	80 tons coal 1,465 nmi (2,713 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement:	63 officers and men
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun L/40 Naval gun 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes
Service record
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Recruit was a Clydebank three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895–1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1806 for an 18-gun brig-sloop, sold in 1822.

The British Admiralty's 1895–1896 shipbuilding programme included orders for 20 "thirty-knotter" torpedo-boat destroyers, with four destroyers ordered from the Clydebank shipbuilder J & G Thomson.

Thomson's design was an enlarged version of their successful "twenty seven-knotter" design with more powerful engines to reach the higher contract speed. The design had an overall length of 214 feet 0 inches (65.23 m) and a length between perpendiculars of 210 ft 0 in (64.01 m), with a beam of 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m) and a draught of 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m). Design displacement was 345 long tons (351 t) light and 385 long tons (391 t) full load. Four Normand boilers fed steam at 230 pounds per square inch (1,600 kPa) to triple expansion steam engines rated at 5,800 indicated horsepower (4,300 kW) and driving two propeller shafts. Three funnels were fitted. 80 tons of coal were carried, giving a range of 1,465 nautical miles (2,713 km; 1,686 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph). The ship had a complement of 63 officers and men.

Armament was specified as a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), backed up by five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.

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