HMS Scorpion (1910)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Scorpion.
HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen Beagle-class destroyers in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910.[1] She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.[2]
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Scorpion in Valletta harbour, Malta, 1915 | |
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Name | HMS Scorpion |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |
Launched | 19 February 1910 |
Commissioned | 30 August 1910 |
Fate | Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer |
Displacement | 860–940 long tons (874–955 t) |
Length | 275 ft (84 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Installed power | 12,500 hp (9,300 kW) |
Propulsion | Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Complement | 96 |
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