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HMS Shark (1912)
Summary
HMS Shark, was an built in 1912 for the Royal Navy. Shark was sunk during the Battle of Jutland on the evening of 31 May 1916.
Under the 1911–1912 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy, the British Admiralty ordered 20 s, with 12 to the standard Admiralty design and 8 more builder's specials, with detailed design left to the builders. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson received an order for one destroyer, HMS Shark, to be built to the Admiralty design.
The Acastas were larger and more powerful than the s ordered under the previous year's programme. Greater speed was wanted to match large fast destroyers building for foreign navies, while a larger radius of action was desired. The destroyers built to the Admiralty standard design were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was Normal and Deep load. Four Yarrow boilers fed steam to direct drive Parsons steam turbines rated at and driving two shafts. This gave a speed of . Three funnels were fitted. The ship had an endurance of at .
Armament consisted of three guns mounted on the ship's centreline, with one forward and two aft, with 120 rounds of ammunition carried per gun, together with two torpedo tubes. Two reload torpedoes were carried. The ship had a crew of 73 officers and ratings.
Shark was laid down at Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard on 27 October 1911 and was launched on 30 July 1912. In 1913 the Admiralty decided to reclassify the Royal Navy's destroyers into alphabetical classes, with the Acasta class becoming the K class. New names were allocated to the ships of the K class, with the name Kestrel being reserved for Shark, but the ships were not renamed. Shark was completed in April 1913.
Following commissioning, as with the rest of her class, Shark joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth. On the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the 4th Flotilla, including Shark, became part of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow in Orkney.
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