&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Scorpion_(1910)_IWM_SP_000592.jpg) Scorpion in Valletta harbour, Malta, 1915
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Scorpion |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |
| Launched | 19 February 1910 |
| Commissioned | 30 August 1910 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 860–940 long tons (874–955 t) |
| Length | 275 ft (84 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Installed power | 12,500 hp (9,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement | 96 |
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HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen Beagle-class destroyers in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910.[1] She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.[2]
- ^ The Times (London), Wednesday, 31 August 1910, p. 5
- ^ "Beagle Class Destroyer 1909 - 1910". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2015.