HMS Broke (1914)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Broke
Builder	J. Samuel White, East Cowes
Launched	25 May 1914
Completed	November 1914
Acquired	August 1914
Fate	Resold to Chilean Navy, May 1920
Chile
Name	Almirante Uribe
Commissioned	1920
Decommissioned	1933
Fate	Scrapped, 1933
General characteristics
Class & type	Faulknor-class destroyer leader
Displacement	1,742 long tons (1,770 t)
Length	331 ft 3 in (100.97 m) (o/a)
Beam	32 ft 6 in (9.9 m)
Draught	11 ft 8 in (3.6 m) (deep load)
Installed power	6 × White-Forster boilers; 30,000 shp (22,000 kW);
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 steam turbines
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	2,405 nmi (4,454 km; 2,768 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	197
Armament	As built;; 6 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns; 4 × single tubes for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes; As rearmed;; 2 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns; 2 × single 4 in guns; 2 × single 2 pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) AA gun; 2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes;

HMS Broke was a Faulknor-class destroyer leader of the Royal Navy, initially built for the Chilean Navy as the Almirante Lynch-class destroyer Almirante Goñi. The outbreak of the First World War led to her being purchased by the Admiralty in August 1914 shortly after her launching, and renamed HMS Broke. All of the class were present at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May to 1 June 1916, where Broke, out of control after hits from German ships, collided with the Acasta-class destroyer HMS Sparrowhawk, leading to the latter's loss. Broke saw action in several battles, and was resold to Chile after the conclusion of the war.