HMS Amazon (D39)

HMS Amazon underway.
Class overview
Preceded by	Admiralty Modified W class
Succeeded by	A- and B class
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Amazon
Ordered	16 July 1924 (contract 8 August 1924)
Builder	John I Thornycroft, Woolston
Laid down	29 January 1925
Launched	27 January 1926
Commissioned	5 May 1927
Fate	Sold for scrapping 25 October 1948
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
Length	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) (p/p)
Beam	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Installed power	42,000 shp (31,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Brown-Curtiss single-reduction geared steam turbines 3 × 3-drum Yarrow-type boilers 2 × shafts
Speed	37 kn (43 mph; 69 km/h)
Range	3,400 nmi (3,900 mi; 6,300 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) 5,340 nmi (6,150 mi; 9,890 km) at 12.5 kn (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h)
Capacity	433 short tons (393 t) fuel oil
Complement	138
Armament	4 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk I dual purpose guns 2 × QF 2-pounder Mk.II anti-aircraft guns (2×1) 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3)

HMS Amazon was a prototype design of destroyer ordered for the Royal Navy in 1924. She was designed and built by Thornycroft in response to an Admiralty request for a new design of destroyer incorporating the lessons and technological advances of the First World War. Their great rivals Yarrow produced a similar, competitive design — that of Ambuscade.