As Douglas, but Thornycroft funnels.

5 or 3 Thornycroft: Keppel, Rooke (both building 1919 but may be stopped), Shakespeare, Spencer, Wallace. 1740 tons.

• Dimensions: 318.25 (p.p.), 329 (o.a.) x 31.75 x 10.5 feet (mean) draught.
• Guns: 5-4.7 inch (DIR. CON.),* 1-3 inch A.A., 1-2 pdr. pom-pom. Tubes: 6-21 inch in 2 triple deck mountings.
• Machinery: Brown-Curtis all-geared turbines.
  Designed S.H.P. 40,000 = 36 kts. 2 screws.
  Boilers: Yarrow.
  Oil about 550/400 tons.
• Complement, 164.

General Notes: Built under War Emergency Programme. Appearance almost exactly same as Bruce, Campbell, &c -, but these boats have the usual big, flat-sided Thornycroft funnels with caged caps. No War Losses. Cancelled 1918: Saunders, Spragge (Keppel and Rooke may have been stopped in Sept., 1919).

*Unofficial and unverified reports credit Keppel and Rooke with 4-5.5 inch (DIR.CON.), 1-3 inch A.A. or 2-2 pdr. A.A.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - p 98

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