HMS Surprise (1916)
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| Name: | HMS Surprise |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow |
| Launched: | 25 November 1916 |
| Completed: | February 1917 |
| Fate: | Mined and sunk 23 December 1917 |
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| Class and type: | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 975 long tons (991 t) |
| Length: | 273 ft (83.2 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 7 1⁄2 in (7.81 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 82 |
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HMS Surprise was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She was sunk, with most of her crew in 1917.
Surprise was ordered from Yarrow Shipbuilders of Glasgow by the British Admiralty in July 1915 as part of the Sixth War Construction Programme. Surprise was one of 4 Yarrow R-class destroyers ordered as part of this programme, together with 19 Admiralty R-class destroyers and three Thornycroft R-class destroyers. The ship was launched on 25 November 1916 and completed in January 1917.Surprise was built as a Yarrow "special", to Yarrow's own design rather than to the Admiralty's own design for the R-class destroyer. Yarrow's design used direct-drive steam turbines rather than the geared turbines of the Admiralty design, and had two funnels rather than three. As such, they more closely resembled Yarrow M-class Specials,
Surprise's hull was 273 feet 6 inches (83.36 m) long overall, with a beam of 25 feet 7 1⁄2 inches (7.81 m) and a draught of 9 feet (2.74 m). Displacement was 930 long tons (940 t). Three Yarrow boilers fed Parsons turbines, driving two propeller shafts and generating 27,000 shaft horsepower (20,000 kW). This gave a speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Armament consisted of three QF Mark IV 4 inch (102 mm) guns, with a single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun and four 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The ship had a crew of 82 officers and men.
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