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HMS Douglas
HMS ''Douglas'' was a Admiralty type flotilla leader (also known as the ''Scott''-class) of the British Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird, ''Douglas'' commissioned in 1918, just before the end of the First World War. During the Second World War, ''Douglas'' served with Force H out of Gibraltar and as a convoy escort. She was sold for scrap in March 1945.
==Design and construction==
In December 1916, the British Admiralty placed orders for two large flotilla leaders, and ''Douglas'' from Cammell Laird as a follow on to the prototype of the class, , which had been ordered in April that year.〔Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 83.〕 The ship was long between perpendiculars and overall,〔Friedman 2009, p. 298.〕 with a beam of and a draught of .〔 Design displacement was normal and full load.〔 The ship's machinery consisted of four Yarrow boilers that fed steam at to two sets of Parsons single-reduction geared-steam turbines, rated at . This gave a design speed of light, which corresponded to about at full load.〔Lenton 1970, p. 43.〕
''Douglas'' main gun armament consisted of five 4.7 in (120 mm)/45 calibre BL Mark I guns, on CP VI mountings capable of elevating to 30 degrees.〔Preston 1971, pp. 99, 101.〕 These guns could fire a shell to at a rate of 5–6 rounds per minute per gun. 120 rounds per gun were carried.〔 Anti-aircraft armament consisted of a single 3 inch (76 mm) 20 cwt gun.〔Gardiner and Gray 1985, pp. 82–83.〕 Torpedo armament consisted of six 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in two triple mounts.〔Preston 1971, pp. 99, 101.〕
''Douglas'' was laid down at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 30 June 1917, launched on 8 June 1918 and commissioned on 30 August 1918.〔Preston 1971, p. 101.〕〔Whitley 2002, p. 85.〕
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