HMS Tenedos (Pennant number initially FA4 and later H04) was an Admiralty 'S' class destroyer. Laid down on 6 December 1917, she was constructed by Hawthorn Leslie of Tyne, and was completed in 1918. She was commissioned in 1919 and served throughout the interwar period. Construction and design Tenedos was ordered from the Tyneside shipbuilding company Hawthorn Leslie on 23 June 1917, as part of the Twelfth War Programme, one of 36 destroyers ordered on that date, including four Admiralty S-class destroyers ordered from Leslies. Tenedos was long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was standard and full load. Three Yarrow boilers fed steam at to two sets of Brown-Curtiss single-reduction steam turbines rated at at 360 rpm which in turn drove two propeller shafts. This gave a speed of . of oil could be carried, giving a range of at . The ship had a crew of 90 officers and men. Three 4 inch (102 mm) guns were carried, together with a single 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun. Torpedo armament was four 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in two twin rotating mounts and two 18 inch tubes at the break of the ship's forecastle for snap shots at close range. Later ships of the class had the 18 inch tubes left off, while they were removed from the ships that were fitted to them between the wars. Tenedos was laid down at Leslie's Hebburn shipyard on 6 December 1917, launched on 21 October 1918 and completed in July 1919. Service Tenedos commissioned later in 1919, joining the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In December 1924, Tenedos was under refit at Chatham Dockyard. In September 1930, it was announced that Tenedos, in maintenance reserve at Rosyth, would be recommissioned to replace sister ship , based at Cobh in the Republic of Ireland, after Seawolf had been damaged in a collision with a trawler, with Seawolf to be disposed of. In April 1932, it was announced that Tenedos and would be replaced at the Irish station by and , with Tenedos and Sturdy transferring to the reserve. In December 1933, it was announced that Tenedos would transfer from reserve at Portsmouth to Devonport, where she would serve as spare emergency destroyer. On 7 February 1936, the Daunt Rock lightship broke free from her moorings near Cork Harbour. Attempts by