HMS Doon in 1905
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History | |
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Name | Doon |
Ordered | 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates |
Builder | R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Laid down | 16 February 1904 |
Launched | 8 November 1904 |
Commissioned | 1 June 1905 |
Out of service | 1919 laid up in reserve awaiting disposal |
Fate | 27 May 1919 sold to Thos. W. Ward of Sheffield for breaking at Rainham, Kent, on the Thames Estuary |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hawthorn Leslie Type River-class destroyer[1][2] |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 25.5 kn (47.2 km/h) |
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Complement | 70 officers and men |
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Operations: | World War I 1914 - 1918 |
HMS Doon was a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Doon in western Scotland, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.