HMS Sturdy (1919)

	Sister ship Strenuous in 1918
History
United Kingdom
Name	Sturdy
Ordered	June 1917
Builder	Scotts, Greenock
Yard number	495
Laid down	April 1918
Launched	26 June 1919
Commissioned	8 October 1919
Out of service	30 October 1940
Fate	Grounded off the island Tiree
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,000 long tons (1,016 t) normal; 1,220 long tons (1,240 t) deep load;
Length	265 ft (80.8 m) p.p.
Beam	26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Draught	9 ft 10 in (3.0 m) mean
Installed power	3 Yarrow boilers, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts
Speed	36 kn (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range	2,750 nmi (5,093 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	90
Armament	3 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) AA gun; 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 3 × depth charge chutes;

HMS Sturdy was an S-class destroyer, which served with the Royal Navy. Launched in 1919, the destroyer visited the Free City of Danzig the following year but then spent most of the next decade in the Reserve Fleet. After a brief period of service in Ireland in 1931, Sturdy was divested of armament in 1934 and equipped with a single davit to rescue ditched aircraft, and acted as plane guard to the aircraft carrier Courageous. The ship subsequently took part in the 1935 Naval Review. Re-armed as a minelayer, the destroyer was recommissioned the following year and reactivated at the start of the Second World War. Sturdy was then employed escorting convoys in the Atlantic Ocean, but ran aground off the coast off the Inner Hebrides island at Tiree in 1940. The vessel was split in two by the waves. The crew evacuated, apart from three sailors who died, and the destroyer was lost.

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