HMS Maidstone (1912)
HMS Maidstone was a submarine depot ship of the Royal Navy. She was purpose built to support 12 of the new 'D' Class submarines under the 1910/11 Naval Programme.
Maidstone | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Maidstone |
| Namesake | Maidstone, Kent |
| Ordered | 1910 |
| Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Launched | 27 April 1912 |
| Commissioned | 15 October 1912 |
| Decommissioned | 15 December 1927 |
| Fate | Sold 31 August 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine depot ship |
| Displacement | 3,600 long tons (3,700 t) (normal load) |
| Length | 355 ft (108 m) |
| Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 9.5 in (5.423 m) (deep load) |
| Installed power | 2,800 shp (2,100 kW) |
| Propulsion | triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 14.3 knots (26.5 km/h; 16.5 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | three 35 ft (11 m) motor boats
two 30 ft (9.1 m) cutters two 27 ft (8.2 m) whalers two 16 ft (4.9 m) skiffs one 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) balsa raft |
| Complement | 159 |
| Armament | Nil |
| Notes | |
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