HMS Sparrowhawk (1918)

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as Sparrowhawk? — 5 February 1931

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Sparrowhawk
Pennant / hull number: 1918
Namesake: Sparrowhawk
Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Ordered: 7 April 1917
Laid down: September 1917
Launched: 14 May 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 Sparrowhawk was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1918. She was named for Sparrowhawk. Swan Hunter, Wallsend laid her keel in September 1917. She was launched on 14 May 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 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 Parsons steam turbines, 27,000 shp
Armament: 3 × single QF 4 in guns
1 × single 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 Sparrowhawk (1918) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Surgeon Oscar Parkes — This photograph SP 1963 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons