HMS Botha
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Botha
BuilderJ S White, Cowes
AcquiredAugust 1914
Fate
Chile
NameAlmirante Williams
Commissioned1920
Decommissioned1933
FateScrapped in 1933
General characteristics
Class and typeFaulknor-class destroyer leader
Displacement1,700 tons
Tons burthen1,850 tons
Length331 ft (101 m) o/a
Beam32 ft 6 in (9.91 m)
Draught11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion6 White-Forster type water-tube boilers, steam turbines, 3 shafts, 30,000 shp
Speed32 knots
Range403 tons coal, 83 tons oil
Complement197 - 205
Armament

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

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

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