&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Serene_IWM_SP_1996.jpg) Sister ship Serene in 1919
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Serapis |
| Namesake | Serapis |
| Ordered | June 1917 |
| Builder | Denny, Dumbarton |
| Yard number | 1101 |
| Laid down | 4 December 1917 |
| Launched | 17 September 1918 |
| Completed | 21 March 1919 |
| Out of service | 25 January 1934 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 265 ft (80.8 m) p.p. |
| Beam | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) mean |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Range | 2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMS Serapis was an S-class destroyer, which served with the Royal Navy during the Greco-Turkish and Russian Civil Wars. Launched on 17 September 1918, the vessel was not completed until after the closing of the First World War. The ship joined the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Reserve Fleet at Rosyth. The ship was then commissioned and sent to Constantinople to support refugees escaping from the conflicts in the Black Sea. The destroyer assisted in the evacuation of the Crimea in 1919 and helped rescue about nine hundred people from Smyrna in 1922. In 1929, Serapis was transferred to Hong Kong to serve in China. However, the signing of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 meant that the Royal Navy looked to retire older vessels. Serapis was sold to be broken up on 25 January 1934.