HMAS Tasmania

HMAS Tasmania
History
Australia
Namesake	State of Tasmania
Builder	William Beardmore and Company
Laid down	18 December 1917
Launched	22 November 1918
Completed	22 January 1919
Commissioned	Royal Navy: January 1919 RAN: 27 January 1920
Decommissioned	9 January 1928
Fate	Sold for scrap on 4 June 1937
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty S class destroyer
Displacement	1,075 tons
Length	275 ft 10.625 in (84.08988 m) length overall
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)
Propulsion	3 × Yarrow boilers, Brown-Curtis turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) as designed 32.93 knots (60.99 km/h; 37.90 mph) on power trails 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) economical
Range	2,589 nautical miles (4,795 km; 2,979 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Complement	6 officers, 93 sailors
Armament	3 × QF 4-inch Mk IV guns 1 × 2-pounder pom-pom 2 × 9.5-inch howitzers 5 × .303-inch machine guns 2 × twin 21-inch torpedo tube sets 2 depth charge throwers 4 depth charge chutes

HMAS Tasmania (H25) was an Admiralty S class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent a year commissioned but not operational in British service before being transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with almost all of it spent in Australian waters. Tasmania was decommissioned in 1930, and was sold for ship breaking in 1937.