HMS Sybille (1917)

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HMS Sybille (1917)

HMS Sybille was a Royal Navy destroyer built during World War I. It was a Yarrow Later M-class (also called Yarrow R-class) destroyer, an improved version of the earlier M-class with a narrower beam.

Design and development
- The Yarrow Later M-class were built as part of Britain’s wartime need for more capable ships. Sybille was the last of her class to be launched.
- Length about 273 ft 6 in; beam about 25 ft 8 in; draught about 9 ft.
- Displacement around 930 long tons.
- Propulsion: Yarrow boilers and Parsons direct-drive steam turbines on two shafts. Designed speed around 36 knots; trials showed it could go faster.
- Crew: about 82 officers and ratings.
- Armament: three QF 4-inch guns (one fore, one amidships, one aft), two twin 21-inch torpedo tubes, and a single 2-pounder anti-aircraft gun. It was also fitted to carry depth charges (starting with a small number, increasing to 30–50 by 1918).

Construction and career
- Keel laid: August 1915, at Yarrow's Scotstoun yard in Glasgow.
- Launched: 5 February 1916; completed in February 1917.
- Service: Joined the Harwich Force as part of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla, escorting North Sea convoys.
- 4 June 1917: Took part in the Ostend bombardment with monitors Erebus and Terror; about 20 of 115 shells hit the dockyard area.
- 16–17 October 1917: Took part in a large force search for a German fleet but saw no action.
- 1 October 1918: A flotilla led by HMS Montrose tried to intercept retreating German forces; Sybille did not encounter them.
- Postwar: Placed in reserve at The Nore on 1 April 1919.
- 1924: Joined a naval review in front of King George V.
- 5 November 1926: Sold to be broken up at Newport.

Pennant numbers
- F77 (January 1917)
- F67 (January 1918)
- F16 (January 1919)
- H48 (January 1922)

Fate
- Sold for breaking up in 1926.