Royal Navy — Destroyer
1918
HMS Sirdar (1918)
Service
- as Sirdar6 September 1918 — 4 May 1934
S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Sirdar
- Pennant / hull number
- 1918
- Namesake
- Sirdar
- Builder
- Palmers, Jarrow
- Ordered
- 7 April 1917
- Laid down
- August 1917
- Launched
- 6 July 1918
- Commissioned
- 6 September 1918
- Fate
- Sold to be broken up
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,220 long tons (1,240 t)
- Length
- 80.77 m (265 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 2,750 nmi (5,093 km)
- Complement
- 90
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Sirdar was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1918. The ship was named after Sirdar. Palmers, Jarrow laid her keel in August 1917. She entered service on 6 September 1918, having been launched on 6 July 1918.
111 ships of the class were built.
She displaced 1,000 long tons standard and 1,220 long tons at full load. She measured 80.8 m (265 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 broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 Yarrow boilers
- 2 geared Parsons steam turbines, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × single QF 4 in guns
- 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm Mk. II AA gun
- 2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- 4 × depth charge chutes
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- HMS Saumarez (G12)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Sirdar (1918) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 1326 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons