HMS Roebuck (1901)

Sister-ship Greyhound underway in 1906
History
Name:	HMS Roebuck
Ordered:	1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates
Builder:	R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Laid down:	2 October 1899
Launched:	4 January 1901
Commissioned:	March 1902
Out of service:	Laid up, December 1918
Fate:	Broken up, 1919
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer
Displacement:	385 t (379 long tons) light 430 t (423 long tons) full load
Length:	214 ft 6 in (65.38 m) o/a
Beam:	21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught:	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Installed power:	6,100 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × Yarrow boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 × shafts
Speed:	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	85 tons coal 1,555 nmi (2,880 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement:	63 officers and men
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I naval gun 5 × QF 6-pounder 8 cwt naval gun 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes
Service record
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Roebuck was a Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898–1899 Naval Estimates. She was the twelfth ship to carry the name. She served during World War I and was broken up in 1919.

On 30 March 1899, the British Admiralty ordered three destroyers (Roebuck, Greyhound and Racehorse) from the Newcastle shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie, as part of the 1898–1899 shipbuilding programme.

The three ships closely resembled the two thirty-knotter destroyers, Cheerful and Mermaid built by Hawthorn Leslie under the 1896–1897 programme. They were 214 feet 6 inches (65.38 m) long overall and 210 ft 11 in (64.29 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) and a draught of 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m).Displacement was 385 long tons (391 t) light and 430 long tons (440 t) full load. Four Yarrow boilers (in place of the Thornycroft boilers used by Cheerful and Mermaid) fed steam to two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, rated at 6,100 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW). Up to 85 long tons (86 t) of coal could be carried, giving a range of 1,555 nautical miles (2,880 km; 1,789 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph). The ship had the standard armament of the Thirty-Knotters, i.e. a 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), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. The ship was manned by 63 officers and men.