Stour-class destroyer

Class overview

Name:	Stour class destroyer
Builders:	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Operators:	Royal Navy
Built:	1904–1905
In commission:	1909–1919
Completed:	2
Retired:	2
General characteristics ^[1]
Displacement:	550 long tons (560 t) standard
Length:	67.1 m (220 ft 2 in)
Beam:	7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
Draught:	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Parsons steam turbines, 7,000 ihp (5,200 kW), 2 shafts
Speed:	25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Complement:	70
Armament:	4 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I 5 × single 6-pdr Hotchkiss 57 mm (2.2 in) guns 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes

Two Stour class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. They were built by Cammell Laird in 1905 and purchased by the Admiralty in 1909 to replace losses. HMS Stour and HMS Test displaced 570 tons, were 220 feet long and their Normand boilers generated 7,000 HP to produce 26 knots. They were armed with four twelve pounders and two torpedo tubes. They carried 134 tons of coal and 66 tons of oil. They served in home waters during the Great War and were sold off in 1919.

References

↑ "Technical Details of HMS Stour". navalhistory.flixco.info. Retrieved 19 July 2010.

Manning, Captain T.D. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.

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Preceded by: D class Followed by:Tribal class List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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