&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Opossum_1895.jpg) Opossum in 1897
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Opossum |
| Ordered | 7 February 1894 |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |
| Laid down | 17 September 1894 |
| Launched | 9 August 1895 |
| Commissioned | March 1896 |
| Fate | Sold on 29 July 1920 for scrapping |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hawthorn Leslie "Twenty-seven knotter" |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 204 ft 0 in (62.18 m) oa |
| Beam | 19 ft 0 in (5.79 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
| Installed power | 4,000 ihp (3,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) (contract speed) |
| Range | 1,175 nmi (2,176 km; 1,352 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 53 |
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HMS Opossum was a "twenty-seven knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Built by the Tyneside shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie, Opossum was one of three destroyers built by Hawthorns that were ordered in 1894. She was launched in 1895 and completed in 1896. She remained in service during the First World War, where she was used for local patrol duties based at Plymouth and sank the German submarine UC-49 on 8 August 1918. She was sold for scrap in 1920.