HMS Rosalind (1916)
Sister ship HMS Taurus | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Rosalind |
| Ordered | July 1915 |
| Builder | Thornycroft, Woolston, Southampton |
| Yard number | 850 |
| Laid down | October 1915 |
| Launched | 14 October 1916 |
| Commissioned | December 1916 |
| Decommissioned | 13 July 1926 |
| Fate | Broken up at Garston, Liverpool |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,037 long tons (1,054 t) standard 1,208 long tons (1,227 t) full |
| Length | 274 ft (83.5 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Installed power | 3 Yarrow boilers, 29,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts |
| Speed | 35 kn (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
| Range | 3,450 nmi (6,390 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 82 |
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HMS Rosalind was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. The ship was launched by Thornycroft in October 1916 as the first of five similar ships ordered from the yard. The design was used as the basis for five subsequent ships of the S-class also built by the company. Rosalind served as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War, operating as an escort to other warships and in anti-submarine patrols alongside other destroyers of the coast of Scotland and Ireland. In 1917, the destroyer escorted the armoured cruisers Duke of Edinburgh and HMS Shannon. After the Armistice that ended the wr, Rosalind was briefly paid off, then recommissioned and served with the Portsmouth local defence flotilla. In 1924, the destroyer participated in a naval review in front of George V. The vessel was sold to be broken up in July 1926.