HMS Seafire

History

Seafire circa 1918




United Kingdom
Name	Seafire
Ordered	July 1917
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number	478
Laid down	27 February 1918
Launched	10 August 1918
Commissioned	November 1918
Fate	Sold for scrap, 14 September 1936


General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,000 long tons (1,016 t) (normal)
Length	276 ft (84.1 m) o/a
Beam	26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3 m)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow boilers 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 Shafts; 1 steam turbine
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns 1 × single 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA guns 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × single 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Seafire was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She saw service during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The ship was sold for scrap in 1936.