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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Harpy |
| Namesake | Harpy |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Laid down | 23 April 1909 |
| Launched | 27 November 1909 |
| Commissioned | 29 July 1910 |
| Out of service | 27 November 1921 |
| Fate | Sold to the broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 972 long tons (988 t) (normal) |
| Length | 266 ft (81.1 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 6 in (5.0 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 Harpy 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 miles per hour; 50 kilometres per hour) and armed with a 4 in (102 mm) gun and two torpedo tubes. Built by J. Samuel White on the Isle of Wight and launched in 1909, Harpy was initially commissioned the following year 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 in 1914, the destroyer was based in Alexandra, Egypt, but was swiftly redeployed to Malta, followed, in 1915, by action in the Dardanelles Campaign. The destroyer subsequently served as an escort to convoys based at Buncrana, Ireland. After the Armistice of 1918 that ended the war, Harpy was initially transferred to the Nore and then sold in 1921 to be broken up.