Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at Woolston, Southampton for the Royal Navy towards the end of World War I. They were named after historical naval leaders. Only Shakespeare and Spenser were completed in time for wartime service. The other three were completed after the war, Broke and Keppel after being towed to Royal dockyards for completion, and two further ships - Saunders and Spragge - were cancelled. The function of a leader was to carry the flag staff of a destroyer flotilla, therefore they were enlarged to carry additional crew, offices and signalling equipment, allowing a fifth gun to be carried. These ships were very similar to the Admiralty type leader, but had broad, slab-sided funnels characteristic of Thornycroft designs.The design was used as the basis for several ships built for foreign navies in the 1920s.Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer built for the Romanian Navy in ItalyChurruca-class destroyer built for the Spanish NavyMendoza-class destroyer built in Britain for the Argentine navy"@en }
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- Thornycroft_type_destroyer_leader abstract "The Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at Woolston, Southampton for the Royal Navy towards the end of World War I. They were named after historical naval leaders. Only Shakespeare and Spenser were completed in time for wartime service. The other three were completed after the war, Broke and Keppel after being towed to Royal dockyards for completion, and two further ships - Saunders and Spragge - were cancelled. The function of a leader was to carry the flag staff of a destroyer flotilla, therefore they were enlarged to carry additional crew, offices and signalling equipment, allowing a fifth gun to be carried. These ships were very similar to the Admiralty type leader, but had broad, slab-sided funnels characteristic of Thornycroft designs.The design was used as the basis for several ships built for foreign navies in the 1920s.Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer built for the Romanian Navy in ItalyChurruca-class destroyer built for the Spanish NavyMendoza-class destroyer built in Britain for the Argentine navy".
- Q5393564 abstract "The Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at Woolston, Southampton for the Royal Navy towards the end of World War I. They were named after historical naval leaders. Only Shakespeare and Spenser were completed in time for wartime service. The other three were completed after the war, Broke and Keppel after being towed to Royal dockyards for completion, and two further ships - Saunders and Spragge - were cancelled. The function of a leader was to carry the flag staff of a destroyer flotilla, therefore they were enlarged to carry additional crew, offices and signalling equipment, allowing a fifth gun to be carried. These ships were very similar to the Admiralty type leader, but had broad, slab-sided funnels characteristic of Thornycroft designs.The design was used as the basis for several ships built for foreign navies in the 1920s.Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer built for the Romanian Navy in ItalyChurruca-class destroyer built for the Spanish NavyMendoza-class destroyer built in Britain for the Argentine navy".