HMS Sabre (H18)

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Sabre1919 — 19462,193 days of the war

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Sabre
Pennant / hull number: H18
Builder: Alex Stephens at Govan, Glasgow
Ordered: April 1917
Laid down: 10 September 1917
Launched: 23 September 1918
Commissioned: 1919
Fate: Scrapped 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
Length: 84.12 m (276 ft) OA
Beam: 7.92 m (26 ft)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed: 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Complement: 90
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Sabre was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H18. Alex Stephens at Govan, Glasgow laid her keel on 10 September 1917. She entered service in 1919, having been launched on 23 September 1918.

111 ships of the class were built.

She displaced 1,075 long tons. She measured 84.1 m (276 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 90. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in 1946.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Armament: 3 × QF 4 in Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX
1 × QF 2 pdr Mark II "pom-pom"
4 × Lewis Guns
2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes
2 × fixed 14 in tubes for torpedoes (later removed)

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Sabre (H18) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19805/large.jpg This photograph FL 18531 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons