&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Basilisk_(ship,_1910)_-_NH_1227_-_cropped.jpg) Basilisk
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Basilisk |
| Namesake | Basilisk |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Laid down | 11 May 1909 |
| Launched | 9 February 1910 |
| Commissioned | 17 September 1910 |
| Out of service | 1 November 1921 |
| Fate | Sold to the broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 976 long tons (992 t) (normal) |
| Length | 266 ft (81.1 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 6 in (5 m) |
| Installed power | 5 x coal-fired White-Forster boilers, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
| Propulsion | 3 x steam turbines driving 3 shafts |
| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 96 |
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HMS Basilisk was a Beagle-class (from 1913 G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h) and armed with a 4 in (102 mm) gun and two torpedo tubes. Built by J. Samuel White and launched in 1910, Basilisk was initially commissioned into the First Destroyer Flotilla at Portsmouth. In 1912, the warship joined the Third Destroyer Flotilla before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet as part of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in 1913. As the First World War approached, the destroyer was based in Alexandria, Egypt, but was swiftly redeployed to Malta, followed, in 1915, by action in the Dardanelles Campaign. After the Armistice of 1918 that ended the war, Basilisk was initially transferred to the Nore and then sold in 1921 to be broken up.