&sq=&lang=&file=File:Scale_model_of_HMS_Hope-AGO-IMG_7767.JPG) Scale model of Hope at the Art Gallery of Ontario
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Hope |
| Builder | Swan Hunter, Wallsend |
| Laid down | 5 December 1909 |
| Launched | 6 September 1910 |
| Commissioned | March 1911 |
| Out of service | February 1920 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Acorn-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 745 long tons (757 t) (normal) |
| Length | 246 ft (75 m) o.a. |
| Beam | 25 ft 5 in (7.7 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m) |
| Installed power | 4 Yarrow boilers 13,500 shp (10,100 kW) |
| Propulsion | Parsons steam turbines, 3 shafts |
| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 1,540 nmi (2,850 km; 1,770 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 72 |
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HMS Hope was the first warship constructed by Swan Hunter and one of 20 Acorn class (later H-class) destroyers built for the Royal Navy that served in the First World War. The Acorn class were smaller than the preceding Beagle class but oil-fired and better armed. Launched in 1910, Hope served with the Second Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet as an escort based at Devonport for most of the war, protecting ships like RMS Aquitania, until being transferred to Malta to serve with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1917. Hope collided with and sank the destroyer HMS Arno in 1918. After the Armistice, the destroyer continued to serve in Malta under being sold in 1920.