HMS ''Lassoo'' was a built for the
Royal Navy
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during the 1910s.
Description
The ''Laforey'' class were improved and faster versions of the preceding .
[Friedman, p. 129] They
displaced . The ships had an
overall length
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of , a
beam
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**Laser beam
*Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draught of . ''Lassoo'' was powered by two
Parsons
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direct-drive
steam turbine
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s, each driving one
propeller shaft, using steam provided by four
Yarrow boilers.
[Gardiner & Gray, p. 76] The turbines developed a total of and gave a maximum speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of
fuel oil
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that gave them a range of at . The ships' complement was 74 officers and
ratings.
[Friedman, p. 296]
The ships were armed with three single
QF Mark IV guns and two
QF 1.5-pounder (37 mm) anti-aircraft gun
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s. These latter guns were later replaced by a pair of
QF 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft guns. The ships were also fitted with two above-water twin mounts for
torpedoes.
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Construction and service
She was built during the First World War
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as part of an emergency program of naval construction, to an Admiralty
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design by William Beardmore & Company
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, Dalmuir. She was originally to have been named ''Magic'' but she was renamed ''Lassoo'' on 15 February 1915 before being launched on 24 August 1915. She was sunk by the German U-boat on 13 August 1916 off the Maas lightship in the North Sea
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.
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Laforey-class destroyers (1913)
Ships built on the River Clyde
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World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Maritime incidents in 1916