HMS Stag (1899)

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HMS Stag
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameStag
Ordered1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
BuilderJohn I Thornycroft, Chiswick
Yard number324
Laid down16 April 1898
Launched18 November 1899
CommissionedSeptember 1900
FateSold for breaking, 17 May 1921
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and typeTwo funnel, 30 knot destroyer
Displacement
  • 270 t (266 long tons) standard
  • 352 t (346 long tons) full load
Length210 ft (64 m) o/a
Beam19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Draught7 ft 8 in (2.34 m)
Installed power5,700 shp (4,300 kW)
Propulsion
  • 4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers
  • 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines
  • 2 shafts
Speed30 kn (56 km/h)
Range
  • 80 tons coal
  • 1,310 nmi (2,430 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement65 officers and men
Armament
  • 1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 gun on a P Mark I low angle mount
  • 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt L/40 gun on a Mark I* low angle mount
  • 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450 mm) torpedoes
Service record
Operations: World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Stag was a two funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates. She was the sixth ship to carry this name. She was launched in 1899 and was first assigned to the Mediterranean. She served in the North Sea and Irish Sea during World War I, and was sold for breaking in 1921.

Construction[]

She was laid down as yard number 324 on 16 April 1898 at the John I Thornycroft and Company shipyard at Chiswick on the River Thames. She was launched on 18 November 1899. During her builder's trials her maximum average speed was 30.5 knots. She proceeded to Portsmouth to have her armament fitted. She was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in September 1900. During her acceptance trials and work ups her average sea speed was 25 knots.[1][2]

Pre-War[]

Lieutenant and Commander B. A. Austen was appointed in command of the Stag on 14 February 1902,[3] and commissioned her at Chatham on 25 February for service with the Instructional Flotilla.[4] Only weeks later, Lieutenant John Maxwell D. E. Warren was appointed in command from 18 March 1902.[5] In May 1902 she transferred her officers and crew to HMS Sturgeon.[6] She was commissioned at Chatham on 2 September 1902 by Commander for outbound journey to the Mediterranean, where she was placed in the fleet reserve at Malta. Her crew returned home, while Brownrigg succeeded in command of HMS Coquette, tender to HMS Orion, depot ship for destroyers on the Mediterranean Station.[7]

She remained with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1913. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. Since her design speed was 30-knots and she had two funnels she was retrospectively assigned to the D class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as a D-class destroyer and had the letter ‘D’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.[8]

On her return to the UK she was assigned to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla based at Sheerness.

World War I[]

In July 1914 she was in active commission assigned to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla based at Sheerness tendered to the destroyer depot ship Tyne. In August 1914 the 8th was re-deployed to the River Tyne. The 8th was a patrol flotilla tasked with anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols.[9]

On 25 September while on patrol off the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth she was missed by two torpedoes fired by an unknown submarine.[10] In November 1917 she was deployed to the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla until the cessation of hostilities providing anti-submarine and counter-smuggling patrols.

Fate[]

In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal. She was sold on 17 May 1921 to Thos. W. Ward of Sheffield for breaking at Grays, Essex on the Thames Estuary.[11]

Pennant numbers[]

Pennant number[11] From To
P34 6 Dec 1914 1 Sep 1915
D43 1 Sep 1915 1 Jan 1918
D78 1 Jan 1918 29 Apr 1920

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b Jane’s All the World's Fighting Ships (1898), pp.84-85.
  2. ^ a b Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I (1919), p.76.
  3. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36700. London. 25 February 1902. p. 11.
  4. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36701. London. 26 February 1902. p. 10.
  5. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36707. London. 5 March 1902. p. 5.
  6. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36761. London. 7 May 1902. p. 10.
  7. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36867. London. 8 September 1902. p. 8.
  8. ^ Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922 (1985), pp.17-19.
  9. ^ "HMS Stag at the Naval Database website".
  10. ^ "World War 1 at Sea - Royal Navy Vessels Lost and Damaged".
  11. ^ a b ""Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class". Retrieved 1 June 2013.

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