HMS Tempest (H71)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Tempest.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Tempest
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Yard number:	524
Launched:	26 January 1917
Commissioned:	April 1917
Recommissioned:	October 1919
Fate:	Sold for scrapping January 1937
General characteristics
Class and type:	R-class destroyer
Displacement:	975 long tons (991 t) standard
Length:	276 ft (84.1 m)
Beam:	26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)
Draught:	9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Propulsion:	3 boilers 2 geared Brown Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp
Speed:	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range:	3,440 nmi (6,370 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement:	82 (wartime)
Armament:	3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX 1 × single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×2)

HMS Tempest was an R-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan on Clydeside and launched on 26 January 1917 during the First World War.

After commissioning, Tempest joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Harwich Force in April 1917.^[1] On 23 April 1918, Tempest participated in the First Ostend Raid, for which she formed part of "Unit X" which sailed from Dover and escorted the blockships from the Goodwin Sands until they reached a smoke screen which had been laid by motor launches off Ostend. After that they joined the Dunkirk-based destroyer flotilla in supporting the small craft inshore, "within close range of the enemy's heavy batteries".^[2] Tempest remained with the Tenth Flotilla at Harwich until its dispersal in February 1919.^[1] In October 1919, she was recommissioned with a reduced compliment.^[3]

In October 1930, Tempest was used to repatriate the bodies of 48 men who had been killed in the crash of the R101 airship near Beauvais in France. The bodies were carried by Tempest from Boulogne-Sur-Mer to Dover, from where they were taken by rail to lie in state at Westminster Hall.^[4]

She was finally sold for scrapping on 28 January 1937 and broken up at Briton Ferry.^[5]

References

1 2 "Tenth Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)". www.dreadnoughtproject.org. The Dreadnought Project. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
↑ Keys, Roger, Vice Admiral Sir, and Terry, C Sanford (editor) 1919, Ostend and Zeebrugge, April 23: May 10, 1918, Oxford University Press (pp. 166-167)
↑ "H.M.S. Tempest (1917)". www.dreadnoughtproject.org. The Dreadnought Project. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
↑ "R101 - the final trials and loss of the ship". www.airshipsonline.com. The Airship Heritage Trust. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
↑ Ward~McQuaid, John; Cameron, Stuart. "HMS TEMPEST". www.clydesite.co.uk. Clydebuilt Ships Database. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

R-class destroyers

Royal Navy

Admiralty R class	Romola Sarpedon Radstock Raider Sable Rowena Rocket Restless Setter Rob Roy Sorceress Starfish Rigorous Salmon / Sable Redoubt Simoon Stork Sylph Redgauntlet Recruit Satyr Thruster Skate Sturgeon Tempest Skilful Torrid Sharpshooter Thisbe Springbok Tarpon Sceptre Tetrarch Telemachus Tenacious Tormentor Tancred Tornado Torrent

Modified Admiralty R class	Trenchant Tristram Undine Ulysses Tower Tirade Urchin Umpire Ursa Ursula Ulster

Thornycroft R class	Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer

Yarrow R class or Yarrow Later M class	Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent Tyrant Ulleswater

Royal Thai Navy

Thornycroft R class	Phra Ruang (ex-Radiant)

Preceded by: Admiralty M class
Followed by: Admiralty S class

List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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