HMS Sardonyx

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as Sardonyx? — 23 June 19452,122 days of the war

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Sardonyx
Namesake: Sardonyx
Builder: Stephen, Linthouse
Ordered: June 1917
Laid down: 25 March 1918
Launched: 27 May 1919
Fate: Sold to be broken up
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
Displacement, full load: 1,221 long tons (1,241 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 Sardonyx was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was named for Sardonyx. Her keel was laid at Stephen, Linthouse on 25 March 1918. She was launched on 27 May 1919.

Her class ran to 111 ships.

She displaced 1,075 long tons standard and 1,221 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.

27,000 shp drove two shafts.

She was in commission for 2,122 days of the Second World War.

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

Propulsion: 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts
Power: 3 Yarrow boilers, 27000 shp
Armament: 3 × single QF 4 in guns
1 × single [[QF 2 pounder naval gun|2-pdr 40 mm] AA]] gun
2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
4 × depth charge chutes

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Sardonyx on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 18692 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons