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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
2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines

2 shafts
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:
Service record
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
D26 6 Dec 1914 1 Sep 1915
D41 1 Sep 1915 1 Jan 1918
D55 1 Jan 1918 10 Feb 1920

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lyon (1996), p.45.
  2. "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". 9 October 1901. 
  3. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922. Conway Maritime Press. 1985. p. 17. ISBN 0 85177 245 5. 
  4. "HMS Mallard at the Naval Database website". http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/M/02867.html. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 ""Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class". http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm. Retrieved 1 Jun 2013. 


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