Talisman-class destroyer

	HMS Marksman, HMS Talisman and HMS Termagant moored at the Hawthorn Leslie shipyard, Hebburn, 5 November 1915.
Class overview
Name	Talisman class
Builders	Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Thornycroft M class
Succeeded by	Medea class
In service	1916–1921
Completed	4
Lost	1
Retired	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,098 long tons (1,116 t)
Length	309 ft (94 m) o/a
Beam	28 ft 7 in (8.71 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Installed power	25,000 shp (19,000 kW); 3 × Yarrow boilers;
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 steam turbines
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	102
Armament	5 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark IV guns; 2 × twin 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

The Talisman class were a quartet of destroyers ordered for the Ottoman Navy before the First World War, but were taken over in November 1914 and completed for the Royal Navy.

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