&sq=&lang=&file=File:Scout_cruiser_HMS_Attentive._-_IWM_Q_75427.jpg) Attentive prior to the First World War
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Attentive |
| Builder | Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear |
| Yard number | 748 |
| Laid down | January 1904 |
| Launched | 22 November 1904 |
| Completed | 2 February 1906 |
| Commissioned | October 1905 |
| Decommissioned | December 1918 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 12 April 1920 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Adventure-class scout cruiser |
| Displacement | 2,670 long tons (2,713 t) |
| Length | 374 ft (114.0 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 38 ft 3 in (11.7 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range | 2,370 nmi (4,390 km; 2,730 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 289 |
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HMS Attentive was one of two Adventure-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1905 the ship was placed in reserve until she was commissioned in 1907 as part of the Home Fleet. She then spent the next seven years moving on and off of active service in British waters. The ship sank one destroyer and damaged two others in collisions. Attentive was assigned to coastal defence duties when the First World War began in 1914, and spent most of the war assigned to the Dover Patrol. She played a minor role in the Zeebrugge Raid in early 1918 and was then assigned to escort convoys to Gibraltar. The ship was sent to the White Sea later in the year to support the unsuccessful North Russia intervention in the Russian Civil War. Attentive paid off at the end of 1918 and was sold for scrap in 1920.