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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Sabre |
| Ordered | April 1917 |
| Builder | Alex Stephens at Govan, Glasgow |
| Laid down | 10 September 1917 |
| Launched | 23 September 1918 |
| Commissioned | 1919 |
| Identification | Pennant number: H18 |
| Honours and awards | Dunkirk 1940, Atlantic 1940-43 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,075 tons |
| Length | 276 ft (84 m) o/a |
| Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Propulsion | Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
| Speed | 36 knots |
| Range | 250-300 tons of oil |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMS Sabre was an Admiralty S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in September 1918 at the close of World War I. She was built in Scotland by Alex Stephens and completed by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan. Commissioned for Fleet service in 1919, she was the first Royal Navy ship to carry this name.
After the war new destroyer designs were introduced, and many S-class destroyers were scrapped. By the late 1930s Sabre had been de-militarised for use as a target ship. With the outbreak of World War II, she was returned to service in 1939 despite her age and unsuitability for deployment in the Atlantic Ocean.