HMS Truculent (1917)

The related Nerissa
History
United Kingdom
Name	Truculent
Ordered	March 1916
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow
Laid down	March 1916
Launched	24 March 1917
Completed	May 1917
Out of service	29 April 1927
Fate	Sold to be broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Yarrow Later M-class destroyer
Displacement	930 long tons (940 t) (normal)
Length	273 ft 6 in (83.4 m) (o/a)
Beam	25 ft 7.5 in (7.8 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power	3 Yarrow boilers, 27,800 shp (20,700 kW)
Propulsion	Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	1,860 nmi (3,440 km; 2,140 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × single QF 4-inch (102 mm) guns 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) "pom-pom" AA gun 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Truculent was the a Yarrow Later M-class destroyer, or Yarrow R-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The Later M class was an improvement on those of the preceding Yarrow M class, with a narrower beam. Launched in 1917, Truculent joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force. The flotilla escorted convoys across the North Sea. The destroyer also escorted the monitors Erebus and Terror in their bombardment of Ostend in 1917 and of Zeebrugge in 1918, both times without casualties. After the Armistice that ended the war, the destroyer was briefly sent to Hamburg in 1919 before being placed in reserve, eventually being sold to be broken up in 1926.