HMS Speedy (1918)
HMS Speedy was an S-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War, Russian Civil War and the Greco-Turkish War. Speedy was one of a pair of destroyers ordered from Thornycroft with more powerful geared turbines and design changes like a raised forecastle that improved seakeeping. Launched on 1 June 1918, the vessel operated as part of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet for the last months the War. After the Armistice, the vessel joined the Mediterranean Fleet and took part in actions in the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara. It was during action there that the ship struck a tug on 24 September 1922. The collision sank the destroyer, killing ten sailors.
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HMS Speedy (1918)
HMS Speedy was an S-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War, Russian Civil War and the Greco-Turkish War. Speedy was one of a pair of destroyers ordered from Thornycroft with more powerful geared turbines and design changes like a raised forecastle that improved seakeeping. Launched on 1 June 1918, the vessel operated as part of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet for the last months the War. After the Armistice, the vessel joined the Mediterranean Fleet and took part in actions in the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara. It was during action there that the ship struck a tug on 24 September 1922. The collision sank the destroyer, killing ten sailors.
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HMS Speedy was an S-class dest ...... estroyer, killing ten sailors.
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1922-09-24
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1918-08-14
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8.10768e+1
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ship launched
1918-06-01
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Sunk following collision in theSea of Marmara
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Ship armament
*3 × QF Mark IV guns
*1 × sin ...... edo tubes
*2 × torpedo tubes
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destroyer
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Ship commissioned
1918-08-14
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United Kingdom
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Ship fate
Sunk following collision in the Sea of Marmara
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Ship laid down
May 1917
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Ship launched
1918-06-01
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Ship name
HMS Speedy
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Ship ordered
April 1917
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Ship out of service
1922-09-24
Ship propulsion
*3 Yarrow boilers
*2 geared Brown Curtis steam turbines, 29,000 shp
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