Two ''Mermaid''-class destroyers served with the
Royal Navy during the
First World War.
They were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops. Built in 1896–1898, and were launched by
R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company from their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.
Their
Thornycroft boiler
Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships. They are compact and of high evaporative power, factors that encourage this use. Other boiler designs may be more efficient, although bulkier, an ...
s produced 6,100 hp to given them the required and they were armed with the standard
12-pounder gun 12-pounder gun or 12-pdr, usually denotes a gun which fired a projectile of approximately 12 pounds.
Guns of this type include:
*12-pounder long gun, the naval muzzle-loader of the Age of Sail
*Canon de 12 de Vallière, French cannon of 1732
*Cano ...
and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the pair - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as s. The almost identical ships built subsequently at the same yard differed only by having Yarrow boilers.
References
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Destroyer classes
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
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