Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer 1917

HMS Skate (1917)

R-class destroyer (1916) destroyer

HMS Skate (1917)
Tomlin, H W (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 13836 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — 1917 Starboard view of HMS SKATE docked at Liverpool. This destroyer brought surrendered U-Boats into Harwich in during the First World War. At this time, it was the last ship of the old "Admiralty R" class to survive, the oldest ship in the Royal Navy and the only three funnelled destroyer.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Skate19 February 1917 — 19472,193 days of the war
R-class destroyer (1916) destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Skate
Pennant / hull number
1917
Builder
John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Ordered
8 December 1915
Laid down
12 January 1916
Launched
11 January 1917
Commissioned
19 February 1917
Fate
Sold for scrap in 1947 (1947)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
900 long tons (914 t)
Length
84.12 m (276 ft) OA
Beam
7.92 m (26 ft)
Draught
2.44 m (8 ft)
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Range
3,440 nmi (6,371 km)
Complement
90
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

HMS Skate was a R-class destroyer (1916) destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1917. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 12 January 1916. Launched on 11 January 1917, she entered service on 19 February 1917.

She was one of nine ships of her class.

Displacement was 900 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 1947.

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-type water-tube boilers
  • Brown-Curtis single reduction geared steam turbines, 27,000 shp
Armament
  • As designed :
  • 3 × QF 4 in L/40 Mark IV guns on single mounting P Mark IX
  • 1 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II on mount HA Mk.II, later
  • 5 × 0.303 in machine guns
  • 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×2)
  • As Escort :
  • 1 × QF 4 in L/40 Mk.IV mount P Mk.IX
  • 1 × QF 12 pdr L/40 Mk.V mount HA Mk.VIII
  • 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns single mount P Mk.III
  • 2 racks and 8 throwers for depth charges

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Skate (1917) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Tomlin, H W (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 13836 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons