&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Scott_(1917).jpg) HMS Scott
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Scott |
| Namesake | Sir Walter Scott |
| Ordered | April 1916 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 19 February 1917 |
| Launched | 18 October 1917 |
| Completed | 16 January 1918 |
| Fate | Sunk, 15 August 1918 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Admiralty type flotilla leader |
| Displacement | 1,580 long tons (1,610 t) (normal) |
| Length | 332 ft 6 in (101.3 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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| Speed | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 164–183 |
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HMS Scott was the lead ship of her class of flotilla leaders for the V- and W-class destroyers built during the First World War, and the class would unofficially be named after her. Completed in 1918, the ship was assigned to the Harwich Force and was sunk by either a naval mine or by a German submarine in August while escorting a convoy. The ship herself was the first to bear the name Scott and was named after Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet.