HMS Amazon (1908)
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| Name: | HMS Amazon |
| Builder: | J I Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 29 July 1908 |
| Fate: | Sold for Scrap |
| Status: | Scrapped 1919 |
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| Class & type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 970 long tons (986 t) |
| Length: | 280 ft 4 in (85.45 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range: | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 68 |
| Armament: | 3 × QF 12-pounder 12-cwt[Note 1] guns |
HMS Amazon was a Tribal-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She survived the First World War and was sold in 1919. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.
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Notes
- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
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External links
- HMS Amazon, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. OldWeather.org transcription of ship's logbooks August to October 1916
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