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Revision as of 21:34, 8 November 2012

Seven flotilla leaders of the Shakespeare Class were ordered late in the war, but only two were completed by the end of hostility and two were cancelled.

Overview of 5 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Shakespeare Thornycroft 7 Jul, 1917 Handed over 2 Sep, 1936
Spenser Thornycroft 22 Sep, 1917 Handed over 29 Sep, 1936
Wallace Thornycroft 26 Oct, 1918 20 Mar, 1945
Keppel Thornycroft 23 Apr, 1920 Jul, 1945
Template:UK-Rooke Thornycroft 16 Sep, 1920 Foundered 9 Nov, 1942

Machinery

Generators

In 1916, it was stated that flotilla leaders have two 26.25 kw dynamos arranged in parallel with an additional 9 kw oil-fired set for emergency use.[1] It is likely that this applied to this class.

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[2]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 120.
  2. ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.


Shakespeare Class Flotilla Leader
Shakespeare Spenser Wallace Keppel Broke
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