HMS Roebuck (1901)
HMS Roebuck was a Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898–1899 Naval Estimates. She was the twelfth ship to carry the name. She served during World War I and was broken up in 1919. Description and construction On 30 March 1899, the British Admiralty ordered three destroyers (Roebuck, and ) from the Newcastle shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie, as part of the 1898–1899 shipbuilding programme. The three ships closely resembled the two thirty-knotter destroyers, and built by Hawthorn Leslie under the 1896–1897 programme. They were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was light and full load. Four Yarrow boilers (in place of the Thornycroft boilers used by Cheerful and Mermaid) fed steam to two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, rated at . Up to of coal could be carried, giving a range of at . The ship had the standard armament of the Thirty-Knotters, i.e. a QF 12-pounder 12 cwt ( calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two torpedo tubes. The ship was