HMS Savage (1910)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Savage |
| Builder | Thornycroft, Woolston |
| Laid down | 2 March 1909 |
| Launched | 10 March 1910 |
| Completed | August 1910 |
| Out of service | 9 May 1921 |
| Fate | Sold to the broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Beagle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 897 long tons (911 t) (normal) |
| Length | 263 ft 1 in (80.2 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft 1 in (8.6 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 6 in (5 m) |
| Installed power | 5 x coal-fired Yarrow boilers, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
| Propulsion | 3 x Parsons steam turbines driving 3 shafts |
| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 96 |
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HMS Savage was a Beagle-class (later G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h) and armed with a 4 in (102 mm) gun and two torpedo tubes. Built by Thornycroft and launched in 1910, Savage was initially commissioned into the First Destroyer Flotilla at Portsmouth. In 1912, the warship joined the Third Destroyer Flotilla before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet as part of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in 1913. As the First World War approached, the destroyer was based in Alexandria, Egypt, but was swiftly redeployed to Malta, and was involved in the unsuccessful search for the German warships Goeben and Breslau. After this, Savage was deployed to Port Said to escort troopships to the Suez Canal. The destroyer subsequently returned to the North Sea and was involved in recovering the bodies of the crew from the pre-dreadnought battleship Formidable. After the Armistice of 1918 that ended the war, Savage was initially transferred to the Nore and then sold in 1921 to be broken up.