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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Lookout |
| Builder | Thornycroft, Woolston |
| Laid down | 29 August 1912 |
| Launched | 27 April 1914 |
| Completed | August 1914 |
| Out of service | 24 August 1922 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Laforey-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 268 ft 8 in (81.9 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 27 ft 8 in (8.4 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) |
| Installed power | 4 Yarrow boilers, 24,500 shp (18,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts |
| Speed | 29 knots (33.4 mph; 53.7 km/h) |
| Range | 1,720 nmi (3,190 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 74 |
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HMS Lookout was a Laforey-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Laid down in 1912 as HMS Dragon, the ship was renamed in 1913 under an Admiralty order to become one of the first alphabetical class destroyers. Launched in 1914, Lookout joined the Harwich Force and participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, attacking the German light cruiser Strassburg with torpedoes, and the Battle of Dogger Bank. For much of the war, the ship acted as an escort for a wide range of ships, including the troopships carrying soldiers to serve in the Gallipoli campaign and the seaplane carriers Riviera and Vindex during an attack on the Zeppelin hangars at Zeebrugge. From 1917, the destroyer served as an escort to convoys of merchant ships. At the end of the war, the warship was placed in reserve. Although subsequently offered for sale to the Finnish Navy, Lookout was instead withdrawn from service and sold to be broken up in 1922.