HMS Staunch (1910)

	A broadside view of Staunch
History
United Kingdom
Name	Staunch
Builder	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number	920
Laid down	15 January 1910
Launched	29 October 1910
Completed	17 March 1911
Fate	Sunk by U-38 on 11 November 1917
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Acorn-class destroyer
Displacement	748 long tons (760 t) normal
Length	246 ft (75 m) o.a.
Beam	25 ft 5 in (7.7 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Installed power	4 Yarrow boilers 13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion	Parsons steam turbines, 3 shafts
Speed	27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range	1,540 nmi (2,850 km; 1,770 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × single BL 4 in (102 mm) guns; 2 × single QF 12 pdr (3 in (76 mm)) guns; 2 × single 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Staunch was one of 20 Acorn-class (later H-class) destroyers built for the Royal Navy. The destroyer served in the First World War. The Acorn class were smaller than the preceding Beagle class but oil-fired and better armed. Launched in 1910, Staunch acted as escort for the royal yacht Britannia at the Cowes Regatta the following year. At the start of the First World War, the vessel served with the Second Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet as an escort, transferring to the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1915. As the year closed, Staunch assisted in the evacuation of troops at the end of the Gallipoli campaign. Despite the conditions, the destroyer managed to transport almost an entire battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment to safety. In 1917, while moored off the coast of Deir al-Balah supporting the monitors Raglan, M16 and M29, Staunch was torpedoed by the German submarine U-38. The destroyer sank, with eight sailors killed.

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