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HMS Stalwart (1918) : ウィキペディア英語版 | HMAS Stalwart (H14)
HMAS ''Stalwart'' (H14) was an Admiralty S class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent less than eight months in British service before being transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with almost all of it spent operating along the east coast of Australia. ''Stalwart'' was decommissioned at the end of 1925, was sold for ship breaking in 1937, then was scuttled in 1939. ==Design and construction== (詳細はS class destroyer, which was designed and built as part of the British emergency war programme.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', pp. 103–4〕 The destroyer had a displacement of 1,075 tons, a length of overall and between perpendiculars, and a beam of .〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 103〕 The propulsion machinery consisted of three Yarrow boilers feeding Brown-Curtis turbines, which supplied to the ship's two propeller shafts.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 104〕 Although designed with a maximum speed of , ''Stalwart'' was only able to achieve on power trials.〔 The destroyer's economical speed of gave her a range of .〔 The ship's company was made up of 6 officers and 93 sailors.〔 The destroyer's primary armament consisted of three QF 4-inch Mark IV guns. These were supplemented by a 2-pounder pom-pom, five .303 inch machine guns (a mix of Lewis and Maxim guns), two twin 21-inch torpedo tube sets, two depth charge throwers, and two depth charge chutes.〔 ''Stalwart'' was laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at their Wallsend-on-Tyne shipyard in April 1918.〔 The destroyer was launched on 23 October 1918, and completed on 5 April 1919.〔 The ship was briefly commissioned into the Royal Navy in April 1919, but was quickly marked for transfer to the RAN, along with four sister ships.〔 ''Stalwart'' was commissioned into the RAN on 27 January 1920.〔 There were plans to rename the destroyer HMAS ''Darwin'', but these were cancelled in mid 1920.〔 The ship's badge depicted an acorn, and ''Stalwart'' carried the motto "''Cor Roboris Bona Fors''"; Latin for "The Heart of Strength is Good Fortune".〔
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