Greyhound class destroyer
- Greyhound class destroyer
Three "Greyhound" class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War [ [http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/greyhound_class.htm Greyhound Class Destroyer ] ] . Built in 1899-1902, HMS "Greyhound", "Racehorse" and "Roebuck" were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers, with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops, built by R. & L. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard. They were virtually identical to the "Mermaid" class destroyers built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water tube boiler. These 4 Yarrow boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the three - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as C class destroyers.
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