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HMS ''Shikari'' (D85) was an Admiralty S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland and launched on 14 July 1919. She was one of the destroyers that took part in the Invergordon Mutiny. In 1933, she was briefly commanded by Frederic John Walker, who was to rise to fame as the foremost Allied submarine hunter of World War II. On 4 June 1940, the ''Shikari'', under the command of Lt.Cdr. H.N.A. Richardson, was the last ship to leave Dunkirk. ==Construction and design== ''Shikari'' was ordered from Doxford Shipyard in April 1917 as part of the first batch of 24 S-class destroyers.〔Friedman 2009, p. 311.〕 The S class were intended as a fast destroyer for service that would be cheaper than the large V-class destroyers that preceded them and so able to be ordered in large numbers.〔Friedman 2009, pp. 168–169.〕 The ships were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . They displaced standard and full load. Three Yarrow boilers fed Brown-Curtiss single-reduction steam turbines which drove two propeller shafts, and generated at 360 rpm, giving the required 36 knot speed. of oil could be carried, giving a range of at .〔Whitley 2000, p. 83.〕〔Lenton 1970, p. 15.〕 The design gun armament of the S class was three 4 inch (102 mm) guns and a single 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun. Torpedo armament was four 21 inch torpedo tubes in two twin rotating mounts and two 18 inch tubes.〔 ''Shikari'' was laid down on 15 January 1918,〔 but construction was slowed by the end of the First World War in November 1918, and she was not launched until 14 July 1919. After launching, ''Shikari'' was towed to Chatham Dockyard for fitting out. It was decided to use ''Shikari'' as a control ship for the old battleship and target ship HMS ''Agamemnon''.〔 As a control ship, ''Shikari'' was unarmed,〔 with a large deckhouse for the radio-control equipment fitted between the ship's funnels.〔Parkes 1931, p. 65.〕 She was finally commissioned in February 1924.〔 Early in the Second World War, ''Shikari'', along with several other S-class destroyers based in the UK, was modified as a dedicated anti-submarine escort. After conversion, armament consisted of a single 4-inch gun forward, with a 12 pounder anti-aircraft gun amidships. Close-in anti-aircraft armament consisted of two quadruple Vickers .50 machine gun mounts. Both sets of torpedo-tubes were removed, allowing a heavy depth charge armament, with 112 depth charges carried, with sufficient depth charge throwers and racks to allow 14-charge patterns of charges to be used. Type 286 radar and Type 133 Sonar was fitted.〔Whitley 2000, pp. 83–84.〕〔Brown 2007, p. 17.〕 Later in the war, the depth charge armament was reduced, with a 10-charge pattern substituted (as this was found to be as effective as the earlier 14-charge pattern).〔〔Friedman 2009, p. 237.〕 The .50 machine guns were eventually replaced by four single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, and the 12 pounder anti-aircraft gun removed to allow Type 271 radar to be fitted on a lattice mast aft.〔Whitley 2000, p. 84.〕〔Friedman 2009, pp. 242–243.〕 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 Shikari (1919)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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