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{{Other ships|HMS Sharpshooter}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=HMS Satyr F59 1918.png | Ship caption=1918 post card of sistership HMS Satyr}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Sharpshooter | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir | Ship yard number= 550 | Ship laid down= May 1916 | Ship launched= 27 February 1917 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 2 April 1917 | Ship decommissioned= 29 April 1927 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= Sold for scrapping | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | R|destroyer (1916)|0}} destroyer | 1065|LT|t|lk=in}} normal | 276|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} | 26|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | Ship height= | 9|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*3 Yarrow boilers- 2 geared Parsons steam turbines, {{convert|27000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}
| 36|kn|mph km/h|lk=in|1}} | 3440|nmi|km|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} | Ship complement=82 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | 4|in|mm|adj=on|sigfig=4}} Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX- 1 × single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes (2×2)|Ship armour=
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}} | HMS Sharpshooter was an {{sclass2-|R|destroyer (1916)|0}} destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. She was launched on 27 February 1917 and took part in the Navy’s bombardment of Ostend later that year. After the war, Sharpshooter joined the Navy gunnery training establishment at Plymouth and was sold to be broken up on 29 April 1927. Design{{Main|R-class destroyer (1916)|l1=R-class destroyer}}Sharpshooter was one of ten {{sclass2-|R|destroyer (1916)|0}} destroyers ordered by the British Admiralty in December 1915 as part of the Seventh War Construction Programme. The ship was laid down at the William Beardmore and Company shipyard in Dalmuir during May 1916, launched in December 1916 and completed in February 1917.{{sfn|Friedman|2009|page=310}} Sharpshooter was {{convert|276|ft|m|2}} long overall, with a beam of {{convert|26|ft|6|in|m}} and a draught of {{convert|9|ft|m|2}}.{{sfn|Gardiner|Gray|1985|page=81}} Displacement was approximately {{convert|1065|LT|t}} normal.{{sfn|Parkes|Prendegast|1919|page=107}} Power was provided by three Yarrow boilers feeding two Parsons geared steam turbines rated at {{convert|27000|shp|kW}} and driving two shafts, to give a design speed of {{convert|36|kn}}.{{sfn|Friedman|2009|page=310}} Three funnels were fitted. {{convert|296|LT}} of oil were carried, giving a design range of {{convert|3450|nmi}} at {{convert|15|kn}}.{{sfn|Parkes|Prendegast|1919|page=107}} Armament consisted of three QF 4in Mk IV guns on the ship's centreline, with one on the forecastle, one aft on a raised platform and one between the second and third funnels. A single 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom anti-aircraft gun was carried, while torpedo armament consisted of two twin mounts for {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on|adj=on}} torpedoes.{{sfn|Gardiner|Gray|1985|page=81}} Fire control included a single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock.[1] The ship had a complement of 82 officers and men.{{sfn|Gardiner|Gray|1985|page=81}} ServiceOn commissioning, Sharpshooter joined the 10th Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force.{{sfn|The Navy List|1917|page=13}} On 4 June 1917, Sharpshooter was deployed as part of a large group of seven cruisers and twenty-five destroyers to protect the monitors {{HMS|Erebus|I02|2}} and {{HMS|Terror|I03|2}} in their bombardment of the German held Belgian port of Ostend.{{sfn|Newbolt|1931|page=45}} At 2:30 in the morning of 5 June, the destroyer was part of a flotilla of four cruisers and nine destroyers that were patrolling off Thornton Bank when they spotted the German destroyers S15 and S20.{{sfn|Newbolt|1931|page=46}} Along with {{HMS|Satyr|1916|2}}, {{HMS|Taurus|1917|2}} and {{HMS|Torrent|1916|2}}, Sharpshooter damaged S15 and sank S20.{{sfn|Karau|2014|page=139}} On 1 June 1918, the destroyer rescued one of the first pilots of the Royal Australian Navy, Captain A. C. Sharwood, who ditched his Sopwith 2F.1 Camel, operated from {{HMAS|Sydney|1912|2}}, nearby.{{sfn|Warner|2011|page=195}} Sharpshooter remained part of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla at the end of the war.{{sfn|The Navy List|1918|page=13}} After the conflict, the ship was transferred to the Gunnery School at Portsmouth{{sfn|The Navy List|1919|page=17}} and, on 5 March 1919, was reduced to Reduced Complement.{{sfn|The Navy List|1921|page=864}} The destroyer was sold for scrap to Thos W Ward at Briton Ferry on 29 April 1927.{{sfn|Colledge|Warlow|2010|page=368}} Pennant numbers| Pennant Number | Date | | F48 | Dittmar|Colledge|1972|page=71}} | | F61 | Dittmar|Colledge|1972|page=71}} | |
ReferencesCitations1. ^{{cite journal|title=Fire Control in H.M. Ships|journal=The Technical History and Index: Alteration in Armaments of H.M. Ships during the War|year=1919|volume=3|number=23|page=31}}
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