User:From Hill To Shore/HMS Botha

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Botha
Builder	J S White, Cowes
Acquired	August 1914
Fate	Resold to Chilean Navy in May 1920; Scrapped in 1933;
Chile
Name	Almirante Williams
Commissioned	1920
Decommissioned	1933
Fate	Scrapped in 1933
General characteristics
Class and type	Faulknor-class destroyer leader
Displacement	1,700 tons
Tons burthen	1,850 tons
Length	331 ft (101 m) o/a
Beam	32 ft 6 in (9.91 m)
Draught	11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion	6 White-Forster type water-tube boilers, steam turbines, 3 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed	32 knots
Range	403 tons coal, 83 tons oil
Complement	197 - 205
Armament	As built;; 6 × 4 in L/40 QF Mark VI, single mounting P Mk. XI; 2 × twin tubes for 21 in (530 mm) torpedoes (4 × single in Botha); As rearmed;; 2 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) L/45 Mark I, single mounting CP Mk. VI; 2 × QF 2-pounder pom-pom Mk. II, single mounting HA Mk. II; 2 × 4 in L/40 QF Mark IV, single mounting P Mk. IX; 2 × twin tubes for 21-inch torpedoes;

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HMS Botha was a Faulknor-class flotilla leader originally built in Britain in 1914 for the Chilean Navy. Following the outbreak of the first world war it was bought and completed by the Royal Navy. It was returned to Chile in 1920 under the name Almirante Williams and designated part of the Almirante Lynch-class.

On 21 March 1918 she helped foil a nightime German raid on Dunkirk by nine destroyers and ten torpedo boats, which had been intended to support the Spring Offensive.

Bibliography[edit]

Lake, Deborah (2002). The Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids 1918. Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0850528704.

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External links[edit]

The Dreadnought Project; HMS Botha