HMS Recruit was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War.[1] The destroyer was constructed by William Doxford & Son and launched on 9 December 1916.[2] The ship was completed in April 1917. The ship was 276 ft (84.1 m) in length, with a beam of 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m), a displacement of 975 long tons (991 t) standard and an average crew complement of 82.[1]
In May 1917 the vessel was assigned to the tenth destroyer force as part of Harwich Force.[3] The destroyer was sunk by a torpedo from German U-boat SM UB-16 in 1917.[4][5] The sinking occurred in the North Sea 3 miles north of the North Hinder light vessel, with 54 persons lost.[5]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "HMS Recruit". Royal Navy.org. http://www.royal-navy.org/hms-recruit-1916.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1917). p. 13.
- ↑ "Admiralty, First Lord's Papers". Churchill Archive. http://www.churchillarchive.com/explore/page?id=CHAR%2013%2F55%2F91#image=0.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "HMS Recruit". Wrecksite. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10757.
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