HMS Ursula (1917)

	HMS Ursula in Calais, May 1928
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ursula
Ordered	March 1916
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
Yard number	480
Laid down	22 September 1916
Launched	21 April 1917
Completed	26 September 1917
Out of service	19 November 1929
Fate	Sold to be broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer
Displacement	1,035 long tons (1,052 t) (normal)
Length	276 ft (84.1 m) (o.a.)
Beam	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers; 2 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW);
Speed	36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range	3,450 nmi (6,390 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	82
Armament	3 × single QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark IV guns; 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm (1.6 in) AA gun; 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Ursula was a Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy. The Modified R class added attributes of the Yarrow Later M class to improve the capability of the ships to operate in bad weather. The vessel was launched in 1917 at Greenock in Scotland and served with the Grand Fleet during the First World War. After the war, the destroyer was transferred to the Home Fleet, but then moved to the Reserve Fleet. In 1924, Prince George served aboard Ursula before, in 1929, the vessel was sold to be broken up.

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