HMS Mallard (1896) | |
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Name: | HMS Mallard |
Ordered: | 30 May 1895[1] |
Builder: | John I Thornycroft, Chiswick |
Cost: | £54,715[1] |
Yard number: | 308 |
Laid down: | 13 September 1895 |
Launched: | 19 November 1896 |
Commissioned: | October 1897 |
Out of service: | Laid up in reserve 1919 |
Fate: | Sold for breaking, 10 February 1920 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class & type: | Two funnel, 30 knot destroyer |
Displacement: |
272 t (268 long tons) standard 352 t (346 long tons) full load |
Length: | 210 ft (64 m) o/a |
Beam: | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
Draught: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Installed power: | 5,700 shp (4,300 kW) |
Propulsion: |
3 × water tube boilers |
Speed: | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
Range: |
80 tons coal 1,310 nmi (2,430 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) |
Complement: | 65 officers and men |
Armament: |
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Service record | |
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Operations: | World War I 1914 - 1918 |
HMS Mallard was a two funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1894 – 1895 Naval Estimates. She served in Home waters both before and during the First World War, and was sold for breaking in 1920.
Construction[]
She was laid down as yard number 308 on 15 September 1895 at the John I. Thornycroft & Company shipyard at Chiswick on the River Thames. She was launched on 19 November 1896. During her builder’s trials her maximum average speed was 30.1 knots. She had her armament fitted at Portsmouth, was completed and was accepted by the Royal Navy in October 1897.[1]
Pre-War[]
After commissioning she was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla. She served in Home waters and was until October 1901 attached to the Medway instructional flotilla.[2]
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed that all destroyer classes were to be designated by letters. Since her design speed was 30-knots and she had two funnels she was assigned to the D class; the three and four-funnel 30-knotters becoming the C and B classes.[3] After 30 September 1913, she was known as an D-class destroyer and had the letter ‘D’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel
First World War[]
In July 1914 she was in active commission assigned to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla based at Sheerness tendered to the destroyer depot ship Tyne.[4] In August 1914 the 8th was redeployed to the River Tyne and employed on anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols.
In November 1917 she deployed to the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla until the cessation of hostilities providing anti-submarine and counter-smuggling patrols.
Fate[]
In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal. Mallard was sold on 10 February 1920 to Alloa Ship Breaking Company for breaking at Charlestown.[5]
Pennant numbers[]
Pennant number[5] | From | To |
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D26 | 6 Dec 1914 | 1 Sep 1915 |
D41 | 1 Sep 1915 | 1 Jan 1918 |
D55 | 1 Jan 1918 | 10 Feb 1920 |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lyon (1996), p.45.
- ↑ "Error: no
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specified when using {{Cite web}}". 9 October 1901. - ↑ Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922. Conway Maritime Press. 1985. p. 17. ISBN 0 85177 245 5.
- ↑ "HMS Mallard at the Naval Database website". http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/M/02867.html.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 ""Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class". http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm. Retrieved 1 Jun 2013.
- Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1898, Sampson Low Marston, London]. Jane’s All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1898. New York: ARCO Publishing Company.
- Jane, Fred T. (1990) [1919]. Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I. Jane’s Publishing. ISBN 1 85170 378 0.
- David Lyon (1996). The First Destroyers. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-271-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=CeL_rOgykTMC. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
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