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   P52 1920

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
P11		1465	White, Cowes	1915	14.10.1915	1.1916	sold 12.1921
P12		1466	White, Cowes	1915	4.12.1915	2/1916	collision 4.11.1918
P13, 8.1917- P75		312	Hamilton, Glasgow	1915	7.6.1916	8.1916	sold 7.1923
P14		378	Connell, Scotstoun	1916	4.7.1916	1916	sold 7.1923
P15			Workman Clark, Belfast	1915	24.1.1916	1916	sold 11.1921
P16			Workman Clark, Belfast	1915	23.3.1916	1916	sold 11.1921
P17			Workman Clark, Belfast	1915	21.10.1915	1916	sold 11.1921
P18		312	Inglis, Glasgow	1915	20.4.1916	7.1916	sold 11.1921
P19		236	Northumberland SB, Howden	1915	21.2.1916	1916	sold 7.1923
P20		237	Northumberland SB, Howden	1915	3.4.1916	1916	sold 5.1923
P21		698	Russell, Aberdeen	1915	31.3.1916	1916	sold 11.1921
P22		336	Caird, Greenock	1915	22.2.1916	1916	sold 12.1923
P23			Bartram, South Dock	1915	5.3.1916	6.1916	sold 7.1923
P24		490	Harland & Wolff, Govan	1915	24.11.1915	1.1916	sold 12.1921
P25		491	Harland & Wolff, Govan	1915	15.1.1916	3.1916	sold 12.1921
P26		203	Tyne Iron Wks, Willington Quay	1915	22.12.1915	1916	sunk 10.4.1917
P27		322	Eltringham, Willington Quay	1915	21.12.1915	1916	sold 7.1923
P28			Thompson, North Sands	1915	6.3.1916	1916	sold 7.1923
P29		876	Gray, Tees	1915	6.12.1915	1916	sold 7.1923
P30		877	Gray, Tees	1915	5.2.1916	1916	sold 7.1923
P31		5	Readhead, South Shields	1915	5.2.1916	1916	sold 12.1926
P32		213	Harkness, Middlesbrough	1915	20.1.1916	1916	sold 12.1921
P33		266	Napier & Miller, Govan	1915	8.6.1916	1916	sold 12.1921
P34		533	Barclay Curle, Glasgow	1915	22.3.1916	1916	sold 12.1921
P35		341	Caird, Greenock	1916	29.1.1917	1917	sold 1.1923
P36		327	Eltringham, Willington Quay	1916	25.10.1916	1916	sold 5.1923
P37		882	Gray, Tees	1916	28.10.1916	1916	sold 2.1924
P38, 2.1925- Spey		325	Hamilton, Glasgow	1916	10.2.1917	6.1917	fishery protection vessel 2.1925, sold 12.1937
P39		314	Inglis, Glasgow	1916	1.3.1917	5.1917	sold 9.1922
P40		1480	White, Cowes	1916	12.7.1916	10/1916	sold 12.1937
P41			Bartram, South Dock	1916	23.3.1917	9.1917	sold 9.1922
P45		885	Gray, Tees	1916	24.1.1917	1917	sold 1.1923
P46		217	Harkness, Middlesbrough	1916	7.2.1917	1917	sold 10.1925
P47		6	Readhead, South Shields	1916	9.7.1917	1917	sold 10.1925
P48		7	Readhead, South Shields	1916	5.9.1917	1917	sold 5.1923
P49			Thompson, North Sands	1916	19.4.1917	1917	sold 1.1923
P50		210	Tyne Iron Wks, Willington Quay	1916	25.11.1916	12.1916	sold 12.1921
P52		1483	White, Cowes	1916	28.9.1916	12/1916	sold 5.1923
P53		543	Barclay Curle, Glasgow	1916	8.2.1917	1917	sold 2.1924
P54		544	Barclay Curle, Glasgow	1916	25.4.1917	1917	sold 2.1924
P57		326	Hamilton, Glasgow	1916	6.8.1917	11.1917	to Egypt 5.1920 (الرقيب  [Raqib])
P58		327	Hamilton, Glasgow	1916	9.5.1918	7.1918	sold 12.1921
P59		1485	White, Cowes	1916	2.11.1917	2/1918	sold 6.1938
P64		315	Inglis, Glasgow	1916	3.8.1917	11.1917	sold 4.1923

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	613
Displacement full, t
Length, m	74.5
Breadth, m	7.24
Draught, m	2.44
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Parsons or Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	3500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 98
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 356 TT, 2 DCR (30) many boats: 1 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 3 x 1 - 356 TT, 2 DCR (30) P52: 2 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 2 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 2 DCR (30)
Complement	50 - 54

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Project history

Intended as utility destroyers, these were unorthodox craft with very low freeboard, sharply cutaway funnels and a small turning circle. A resemblance to large submarines was fostered, to give them a chance to close the range and sink by ramming or gunfire. Many were armed with single 356mm TT facing aft, as it was hoped that they might be able to cripple German surface warship if attacked during one of the many East Coast raids (these TT were removed from old torpedo boats). The numbers P 1-P 10 had already been used as pendant numbers for old battleships etc. P11-34 ordered May 1915, followed by P35-40 in February 1916, P41-54 in March 1916, P55-62 in April-May 1916 and P63 and 64 in June 1916. Ten of these were converted on the stocks and completed as PC-Boats.

Modernizations

early 1920s, some: + type 112 sonar

Naval service

P12 was sunk 4.11.1918 in collision in the English Channel. P26 was stricken by German mine 10.4.1917 off Le Havre.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

P52 1920