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HMS ''Fortune'' was an , and the twenty-first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was launched in 1913 and was sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. ==Design and description== The ''Acasta''s were larger and heavier armed than the preceding H and I classes ( and , respectively), displacing about 25% more and with the mixed calibre armament replaced with a uniform fit of QF 4-inch guns, which the ''Acasta''s introduced. Previous weapons had been of the breech-loading (BL) type. The guns were shipped one each on the forecastle and either side abreast the after torpedo tube (or amidships before and after the tube in some ships.) All ships had three funnels, the foremost being tall and narrow, the second short and wide and the third level with the second but narrower. The foremost torpedo tube was sited between the second and third funnels, a distinctive feature of this class. There were twelve 'standard' vessels built to a common Admiralty design,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=K-class destroyers (extract from Jane's Fighting Ships of 1919) )〕 and eight builders' specials that (except for ''Garland'') had a shorter, less beamy hull; five of the latter were from Thornycroft with (one of Thornycroft's ships, , was planned to diesel cruising motors, but these were not ready in time and ''Hardy'' was completed with Thornycroft's standard machinery).〔Friedman 2009, pp. 126–129.〕 One by Parsons () had semi-geared turbines〔Friedman 2009, p. 127.〕 giving a speed of on trials, with a seventh from Fairfields had a clipper bow. The eighth 'special' was by William Denny, Dumbarton, which was built using longitudinal framing rather than conventional transverse framing. While ''Ardent'' novel construction seems to have been a success, no more destroyers were built for the Royal Navy using longitudinal framing until the J-class destroyers in the 1930s.〔〔Brown 2010, pp. 70–71.〕 ''Fortune'' displaced with a length of , a beam of and a draught of . The destroyer had a complement of 73.〔Gardiner and Gray, p. 75〕 The ship was powered by four Yarrow-type water-tube boilers creating . This powered 2-shaft Parsons steam turbines〔 which gave the destroyer a maximum speed of . ''Fortune'' was given an experimental clipper bow〔 ''Fortune'' was armed with three on P Mk. IX mountings. However, ''Fortune'' was a "Builders' Special", and the second 4-inch gun was mounted on a platform between the no.2 and 3 funnels. The ship one QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II gun. The destroyer was also equipped with two single torpedo tubes for four torpedoes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Fortune (1913)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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