24-630: (Redirected from Tribal-class ) Tribal class can refer to several classes of warship: Tribal-class destroyer (1905) or F class, 12 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the early 1900s and operating during World War I Tribal-class destroyer (1936) or Afridi class, 27 destroyers built for the navies of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia that served during World War II Tribal-class frigate or Type 81, seven frigates built for
48-404: A severely limited radius of action; Afridi and Amazon once used 9.5 tons of oil each simply to raise steam for a three-mile (5 km) return journey to a fuel depot. Design details were left to the individual builders, as was Royal Navy practice at the time for destroyers. As a result, no two were alike and there was considerable heterogeneity of detail and appearance, Most noticeably
72-512: The Admiralty specification were originally envisaged, but only five vessels were ordered and built under the 1905-06 Programme, all to their builders' own designs. Five more vessels were proposed, but only two were ordered and built under the 1906-07 Programme. A final five vessels were ordered and built under the 1907-08 Programme. In October 1916, it was proposed on 8 November 1916 that the two undamaged 'ends' might be joined together, which
96-480: The River class was completed with, while the number of torpedoes remained at two 18-inch (457 mm) tubes . From the sixth ship ( Saracen ) onwards, however, the armament was again increased, to a pair of BL 4-inch (102 mm) guns , with one gun mounted forward and another on the quarterdeck . From October 1908, the first five ships were modified by adding another pair of 12 pounder guns. The shift towards
120-622: The Royal Navy during the late 1950s and early 1960s, four of which were later operated by the Indonesian Navy General Purpose Frigate , a cancelled Canadian procurement project of the 1960s also called the "Tribal-class frigate" Iroquois -class destroyer or Tribal class, four vessels built for the Canadian Forces in the early 1970s Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
144-677: The UK, and at many ports around the Empire, against possible attack by small fast vessels such as torpedo boats, until the 1950s. There were 103 of these guns (of a total 383 of all types) employed in coast defence around the UK as at April 1918. Many of these were still in service in World War II although they had by then been superseded by more modern types such as twin QF 6-pounder 10 cwt mounts. Guns were traversed (moved from side to side) manually by
168-450: The army throughout the war. They were known as "long twelves" to distinguish them from the BL 12-pounder 6 cwt and QF 12-pounder 8 cwt which had much shorter barrels and ranges. Lieutenant Burne reported that the original electric firing system, while working well under ideal conditions, required support of an armourer and the maintenance and transport of charged batteries in the field, which
192-486: The gun was redesignated as the 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's conversion to the metric system . Although classified as an 8 cm gun the bore was unchanged. The gun fired a 12.5-pound (5.7 kg) high-explosive shell . It was the standard secondary or tertiary armament on most Japanese warships built between 1890 and 1920, and was still in service as late as
216-490: The gunlayer as he stood on the left side with his arm hooked over a shoulder piece as he aimed, while he operated the elevating handwheel with his left hand and grasped the pistol grip with trigger in his right hand. In World War I a number of coast defence guns were modified and mounted on special wheeled traveling carriages to create a marginally effective mobile anti-aircraft gun. UK shells weighed 12.5 lb (5.67 kg) filled and fuzed. The cordite propellant charge
240-610: The guns were refused by the War Office and donated directly to Lord Roberts , the British commander in South Africa and became his personal property. They were known as the "Elswick Battery" and were manned by men from Elswick, recruited by 1st Northumberland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) . The Elswick guns served throughout the war. Many guns were mounted on "pedestals" secured to the ground to defend harbours around
264-472: The larger Tribals also created a requirement for a complementary class of smaller "Coastal" destroyers giving rise to the Cricket class of small TBD, of which 36 were built between 1905 and 1908. The result of this experiment was not ideal and for the following class of destroyers (the 'G', or Beagle , class ) the Admiralty reverted to a single, more uniform design for the 1908-9 programme. Seven ships to
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#1732783139947288-506: The limits of capability of contemporary technology. As a result, the Tribals were severely compromised and a somewhat retrograde step after the successful River class; they were lightly built and proved to be fragile in service. More alarmingly however, they were only provided with 90 tons of bunkerage, and with high fuel consumption resulting from a high power output of 12,500 shp (9,300 kW), they were highly uneconomical and had
312-476: The middle of the 20th century. It was produced by Armstrong Whitworth , Elswick and used on Royal Navy warships, exported to allied countries, and used for land service. In British service "12-pounder" was the rounded value of the projectile weight, and "12 cwt ( hundredweight )" was the weight of the barrel and breech, to differentiate it from other "12-pounder" guns. As the Type 41 3-inch (7.62 cm)/40 it
336-542: The number of funnels varied from three, in Cossack and Ghurka , to six in Viking ; the latter, with two single and two pairs of funnels becoming the only six-funneled destroyer ever built. With a light mainmast aft, they were the first British destroyers to have two masts. The first five ships were designed with the armament of three QF 12-pounder guns , an improvement from the single 12-pounder and five 6-pounder guns that
360-497: The title Tribal class . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tribal_class&oldid=1043060202 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tribal-class destroyer (1905) The Tribal or F class
384-614: Was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy . Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I , where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols . The preceding River- or E-class destroyers of 1903 had made 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) on the 7,000 ihp (5,200 kW) provided by triple expansion steam engines and coal-fired boilers , although HMS Eden
408-666: Was a direct copy of the QF 12-pounder. The first guns were bought from the English firms as " Elswick Pattern N" and " Vickers Mark Z" guns. The gun was officially designated as the Type 41 3-inch (76 mm) naval gun from the 41st year of the reign of Emperor Meiji on 25 December 1908. Thereafter production was in Japan under license. On 5 October 1917 during the third year of the Taishō period,
432-484: Was completed at Chatham Royal Dockyard 7 June 1917 by joining the undamaged fore section of Zulu and the rear section of Nubian respectively. The resulting destroyer was commissioned on 7 June 1917 as Zubian , which was sold for scrapping 1919. QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun The QF 12-pounder 12-cwt gun ( Quick-Firing ) (abbreviated as Q.F. 12-pdr. [12-cwt.]) was a common, versatile 3-inch (76.2 mm) calibre naval gun introduced in 1894 and used until
456-532: Was estimated that out of the 4,737 Mk I and Mk II guns produced there were still 3,494 on hand for the RN in 1939. Many Mk V guns, which had a "monobloc" barrel made of a single casting, served on smaller escort ships such as destroyers and on armed merchant ships , on dual-purpose high–low angle mountings which also allowed it to be used as an anti-aircraft gun . The gun was primarily a high-velocity naval gun, with its heavy recoil suiting it to static mountings, hence it
480-632: Was generally considered unsuitable for use as a mobile field gun. An exception was made when the British army were outgunned by the Boer artillery in South Africa and the Royal Navy was called on for help. Among other guns, 16 QF 12-pounder 12 cwt were landed from warships and were mounted on improvised field carriages designed by Captain Percy Scott RN, with solid wooden trails and utilizing small-diameter Cape wagon wheels. Their 10,000-yard (9,100 m) range provided valuable long-range fire support for
504-588: Was generally not possible. He reported switching to percussion tubes for firing and recommended percussion for future field operations. Another six guns were diverted from a Japanese battleship being built at Newcastle in January 1900, bought by Lady Meux , and were equipped with proper field carriages by the Elswick Ordnance Company in Newcastle and sent to South Africa. Perhaps uniquely,
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#1732783139947528-490: Was normally ignited by an electrically activated primer (in the base of the cartridge case), with power provided by a battery. The electric primer in the cartridge could be replaced by an adaptor which allowed the use of electric or percussion tube to be inserted to provide ignition. The Italian Cannon 76/40 Model 1916 was a licensed derivative of the QF 12-pounder used in a number of roles during World War I and World War II. The Japanese Type 41 3-inch (76 mm) naval gun
552-464: Was powered by steam turbines . In November 1904, the First Sea Lord "Jackie" Fisher proposed that the next class of destroyers should make at least 33 knots (61 km/h) and should use oil-fired boilers and steam turbines as a means of achieving this. This resulted in a larger ship to provide the required doubling of installed power over their predecessors, but also pushed the design to
576-617: Was used on most early battleships and cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy , though it was commonly referred to by its UK designation as a "12-pounder" gun. Italy built guns under licence as the 76.2 mm/40 (3") by Ansaldo. Mk I and II guns, of "built up" construction of steel layers, served on many Royal Navy destroyers up to and after World War I originally as primary and later as secondary armament against submarines and torpedo boats . They were also fitted as deck guns on D and E-class submarines. It
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