History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Sturgeon |
Builder | Alexander Stephen and Sons, Govan |
Laid down | 10 November 1915 |
Launched | 11 January 1917 |
Completed | 26 February 1917 |
Fate | 16 December 1926 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | R-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,220 long tons (1,240 t) deep load |
Length | 276 ft 1 in (84.15 m) oa |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
Draught | 1 ft 5+1⁄2 in (0.44 m) |
Installed power | 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 kn (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
Complement | 82 |
Armament |
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HMS Sturgeon was an R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Sturgeon was built built by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland, and was launched on 11 January 1917 and completed in February that year. The ship took its name after Sturgeon, a freshwater fish.
Sturgeon served in the North Sea as part of the Harwich Force during the remainder of the First World War. After the end of the war, the destroyer was used as a tender to the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, Devon. Sturgeon was sold for scrap on 16 December 1926.