HMS Amazon (1908)

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.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Amazon.

HMS Amazon
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Amazon
Builder: J I Thornycroft, Woolston
Laid down: 24 June 1907
Launched: 29 July 1908
Commissioned: 18 January 1909
Fate: Sold for scrap on 22 October 1919
General characteristics
Class and 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)
Installed power:
  • 6 × Thornycroft boilers
  • about 14,000 shp (10,000 kW) (turbine)
Propulsion:
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

Notes
  1. "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.

Footnotes
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    • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J. J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.
    • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
    • Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
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    • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.


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