3 Beardmore: Satyr, Sharpshooter, Parsons A.G. turbines, Tancred, Brown-Curtis A.G. turbines.

7 Clydebank: Restless, Rigorous, Romola, Rowena, Skate Tarpon,* Telemachus.*,

3 Denny: Rob Roy, Rocket, Redgauntlet.

1 Doxford: Redoubt.

1 Fairfield: Tempest.

6 Harland & Wolff (Govan): Salmon, Skilful, Springbok, Sylph, Tenacious, Tetrarch.

5 Hawthorn Leslie: Sarpedon, Stork, Starfish, Thisbe, Thruster.

3 Stephen: Sceptre, Sturgeon, Tormentor.

4 Swan Hunter: Radstock, Raider, Sorceress, Torrid.

1 White: Sable.

• Displacements vary from 1096 to 1036 tons (1065 average).

• Length, (p.p.) 265 feet (o.a. varies from 274 to 276 feet). Beam, 26.75 feet. Mean draught, 9 feet. Max. draughts, 11.5 to 12 feet.
• Guns: 3-4 inch, 1-2 pdr. pom-pom; (1 M.G., but not in all). Torpedo tubes: 4-21. inch in pairs.
• Machinery: Turbines: " all-geared " types. Clydebank, Denny, Fairfield, Harland & Wolff, Stephen, Swan Hunter and White boats, Brown-Curtis A.G. turbines; Doxford and Hawthorn Leslie boats, Parsons A.G. turbines: Beardmore boats as separately noted. Designed S.H.P. 27,000 - 36 kts. 2 screws in all. Boilers: 3 Yarrow or Modified Yarrow, except Sable by White, with White-Forster boilers. Oil fuel: 295-285,/250-243 tons.
• Complement, 82.

TELEMACHUS as Minelayer After-pair of tubes and 4 inch gun are dummies painted on screens on screens. Photo: Lt C. de Brock, R.N.

STARFISH. Note: Satyr. Skate, Sharpshooter. Starfish. Stork only, have mainmast as above illustration.

General Notes: All Emergency War Programme boats. General design is as the "Admiralty M's", but these boat, have geared turbines and 2 screws, and are rather faster than the " Admiralty M's." >P>To distinguish: Note that the after 4 inch is mounted in a bandstand.

War Losses: Simoon (Clydebank), Recruit (Doxford), Tornado (Stephen). Torrent (Swan Hunter). Setter (White)

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - p 108

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