NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hyderabad (Coral, Nicobar, SSS956)	P80, P77		Thornycroft, Chiswick		27.8.1917	9.1917	depot ship 1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	595
Displacement full, t	624
Length, m	73.4 pp
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	1.91
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	hidden: 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk III, 2 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 4 DCT, 1 DCR (4), 1 CMB 40ft MTB exposed: 1 x 1 - 47/30 21/2pdr Hotchkiss Mk I/II/III
Complement	73

Project history

Hyderabad was designed specially for service as a decoy vessel. She possessed many unique and elaborate features: unusually shallow draught, tilting gun mountings and collapsible deck structures used to conceal weapons. Twin screws were set in tunnels in the aft part of the hull and a false rudder-top that visible above water suggested a deep draught.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.