HMS Tristram (1917)

	HMS Tristram
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tristram
Namesake	Tristram
Builder	J. Samuel White, Cowes
Laid down	23 September 1916
Launched	24 February 1917
Commissioned	30 June 1917
Out of service	9 May 1921
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer
Displacement	1,085 long tons (1,102 t) (deep load)
Length	276 ft (84 m) (o.a.)
Beam	27 ft (8 m)
Draught	11 ft (3 m)
Propulsion	3 White-Forster boilers; 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
Speed	36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h)
Range	3,450 nmi (6,390 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × single QF 4-inch (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) AA gun; 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Tristram was a modified Admiralty R-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The Modified R class added attributes of the Yarrow Later M class to improve the capability of the ships to operate in bad weather. Launched in 1917, the destroyer was operational for just over four years. In 1917, Tristram joined the Grand Fleet and provided distant cover at the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight but did not engage with the enemy. After the armistice which ended the war, the destroyer was initially transferred to the Home Fleet before being placed in reserve in 1920 and then sold to be broken up in 1921.

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