Medea-class destroyer

The Medea class were a class of destroyers that were being built for the Greek Navy at the outbreak of World War I but were taken over and completed for the Royal Navy for wartime service. All were named after characters from Greek mythology as result of their Greek heritage.
The Medeas were a private design roughly similar to their various Royal Navy Admiralty [M class destroyer|M-class] contemporaries. They had three funnels, the foremost of which was taller, and unusually, the mainmast was taller than the foremast, giving rise to a distinctive appearance. They shipped three single QF 4 inch guns, one on the forecastle, one between the first two funnels and the third on the quarterdeck.

Ships

Name	Ship Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
	John Brown & Company, Clydebank	8 April 1914	30 January 1915	May 1915	Sold for breaking up, 9 May 1921
	John Brown, Clydebank	1914	27 March 1915	1915	Rammed and sunk by off of Schleswig, 25 March 1916
	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan	1914	16 December 1914	29 June 1915	Sold for breaking up, 22 September 1921
	Fairfield, Govan	1914	1 February 1915	16 August 1915,	Sold for breaking up, 9 May 1921