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Name | HMS Amazon |
Builder | J I Thornycroft, Woolston |
Laid down | 24 June 1907 |
Launched | 29 July 1908 |
Commissioned | 18 January 1909 |
Fate | Sold for scrap on 22 October 1919 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tribal-class destroyer |
Displacement | 970 long tons (986 t) |
Length | 280 ft 4 in (85.45 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) |
Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 68 |
Armament | 3 × QF 12-pounder 12-cwt[Note 1] guns |
HMS Amazon was a Tribal-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She survived the First World War and was sold in 1919. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.
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