HMS Scout (1918)

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as Scout? — 29 March 19462,193 days of the war

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Scout
Pennant / hull number: 1918
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Ordered: 17 April 1917
Laid down: 25 October 1917
Launched: 27 April 1918
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 Scout was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1918. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 25 October 1917. She was launched on 27 April 1918.

111 ships of the class were built.

Displacement was 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.

She was in commission for 2,193 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: 3 Yarrow boilers
2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp
Armament: 3 × single QF 4 in Mark IV guns
1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm Mk. II AA gun
2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
4 × depth charge chutes

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Scout (1918) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: photographer not identified. Official photograph — This photograph Q 65744 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4510-02) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons