Acheron-class destroyer

HMS Acheron
Class overview
NameAcheron-class destroyer
Builders
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded byAcorn class
Succeeded byAcasta class
Built1911–1912
In commission1911–1922
Completed23
Lost3
General characteristics
Displacement750 to 790 tons
Length246 ft (75.0 m) to 252 ft (76.8 m)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m) to 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) to 9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power
  • Standard I-class:
  • 13,500 shp (10,067 kW)
  • Acheron, Ariel:
  • 15,500 shp (11,558 kW)
  • Lurcher, Oak, Firedrake:
  • 20,000 shp (14,914 kW)
Propulsion
  • Standard I-class:
  • 3 × Parsons steam turbines
  • 3 × Yarrow-type oil-fired boilers
  • 3 × shafts
  • Ferret, Forester:
  • 3 × Parsons steam turbines
  • 3 × White-Forster oil-fired boilers
  • 3 × shafts
  • Hind, Hornet, Hydra:
  • 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines
  • 2 × Yarrow-type oil-fired boilers
  • 2 × Shafts
  • Oak, Lurcher, Firedrake:
  • 2 × Parsons turbines
  • 3 × Yarrow oil-fired boilers
  • 2 × shafts
Speed27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) – 35 kn (64.8 km/h; 40.3 mph)
Armament

The Acheron class (renamed the I class in October 1913) was a class of twenty-three destroyers of the British Royal Navy, all built under the 1910–11 Programme and completed between 1911 and 1912, which served during the First World War. There was considerable variation between the design and construction of ships within this class, which should be considered as more of a post-build grouping than a homogeneous class.

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