Three Greyhound class destroyers served with the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 during the First World War. Built in 1899–1902, , and were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers, with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops, built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company

Hawthorn Leslie and Company

R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturer. The Company was founded on Tyneside in 1886 and ceased building ships in 1982.-History:...

 at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.

They were virtually identical to the built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water-tube boiler

Water-tube boiler

A water tube boiler is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by the fire. Fuel is burned inside the furnace, creating hot gas which heats water in the steam-generating tubes...

. These four Yarrow boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the three - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were reclassed as C class destroyer

C class destroyer

Three classes of destroyer of the Royal Navy have been known as the C class:* The C class of destroyers launched from 1894 and 1901 and reclassified in 1913.* Five ships of the C and D class, all launched in 1931, are known as the "C class"....

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