HMS Fearless 1911-1921

The Ship


Sold for Scrap 1921


Built Pembroke Dockyard, laid down November 1911, completed October 1913.

Leader 1st Destroyer Flotilla with the Harwich Force.
1916 Leader 12th submarine flotilla The Grand Fleet.
31 January 1918 Accidentally rammed and sank submarine K 17.
1921 Sold for scrap.

Size:
Length 385 feet pp 406 feet overall, beam 41 feet 6 inches, draught 15 feet 7 inches, displacement 3,440 tons normal 4,000 tons deep ,load..

Propulsion:
4 shaft Parsons turbines, 18,000 shp, 25kts

Trials:
Cressy 21,200 ihp = 20.79 knots
Aboukir 21,352 ihp = 21.6 knots
Bacchante 21,520 ihp = 21.75 knots

Armour:
1in decks

Armament:
10 x 4in 50cal Mk VIII (10 x 1), 4 x 3 pounder (4 x 1), 2 x 18in TT

My Postcards

Not postally used.
Postcard series: Valentine's, Britain's Bulwarks

 

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