HMS Bruce (D81)

History
HMS Bruce
UK
Name:	HMS Bruce
Namesake:	Robert the Bruce
Ordered:	April 1916
Laid down:	12 May 1917
Launched:	26 February 1918
Commissioned:	29 May 1918
Fate:	Sunk as target off the Isle of Wight, 22 November 1939
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralty type destroyer leader
Displacement:	1,801 long tons (1,830 t)
Length:	332 ft 6 in (101.35 m)
Beam:	31 ft 9 in (9.68 m)
Draught:	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Installed power:	40,000 ihp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × steam engines 2 × shafts
Speed:	36.5 kn (42.0 mph; 67.6 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nmi (5,800 mi; 9,300 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:	164-183
Armament:	5 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk I guns 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Bruce was the second of eight Admiralty type flotilla leaders of the Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird, Bruce was commissioned on 29 May 1918. During World War I, she served with the 10th Destroyer Flotilla at Harwich. She was sunk as a target ship on 22 November 1939.^[1]

References

Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the First World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Lenton, H. T. (1970). British Fleet and Escort Destroyers: Volume One. London: Macdonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-02950-6.
Preston, Antony (1971). 'V & W' Class Destroyers 1917-1945. London: Macdonald. OCLC 464542895.

Admiralty type (Scott-class) flotilla leaders

Royal Navy	Scott Bruce Douglas Campbell Mackay Malcolm Montrose Stuart Barrington^X Hughes^X

Royal Australian Navy	Stuart

X Cancelled

Preceded by: Admiralty V-class destroyer leaders Followed by: Thornycroft type (Shakespeare-class) destroyer leaders

List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1939

Shipwrecks	13 Nov: HMS Blanche 15 Nov: Baikal 21 Nov: HMS Gipsy, Terukuni Maru 22 Nov: Adolph Woermann, HMS Bruce 23 Nov: HMS Rawalpindi 28 Nov: Gustaf E. Reuter 29 Nov: U-35

Other incidents	9 Nov: SS Leander 15 Nov: Brulin 21 Nov: HMS Belfast

1938 1939 1940 October 1939 December 1939

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