HMS Beagle (1909)
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HMS Beagle was one of sixteen destroyers ordered under the 1908–09 Naval Estimates from John Brown & Company of Clydebank. Named for the English hunting dog, she was the sixth ship to carry this name since it was introduced for a Cruizer Class fir-built, brig-sloop on 8 August 1804 and sold on 21 July 1814.[2] The destroyers of the 1908–09 program would be the last coal-fired destroyers of the Royal Navy. She and her sisters served in the First Destroyer Flotilla then were moved en masse to the Third Destroyer Flotilla and before the start of the Great War to the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. With the advent of the convoy system they were moved to the Second Destroyer Flotilla. With the Armistice she was laid up then scrapped in 1921.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Beagle |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Laid down | 17 March 1909 |
Launched | 16 October 1909 |
Commissioned | 10 June 1910 |
Honours and awards | Dardanelles 1915–1916 |
Fate | Sold for breaking, 1 November 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Beagle-class destroyer[1] |
Displacement | 860 long tons (874 t) |
Length | 287 ft (87 m) |
Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
Installed power | 12,500 hp (9,300 kW) under a forced draught |
Propulsion | 5 x Yarrow Coal-fired boilers, 3 x Parson's steam turbines driving 3 shafts |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Range | 205 long tons (208 t) tons coal 1,530 NM @ 15 Knots |
Complement | 96 |
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