HMS Scorpion (1910)
Scorpion in Valletta harbour, Malta, 1915 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Scorpion |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |
| Launched | 19 February 1910 |
| Commissioned | 30 August 1910 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Beagle-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 860–940 long tons (874–955 t) |
| Length | 275 ft (84 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Installed power | 12,500 hp (9,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement | 96 |
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HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen Beagle-class destroyers in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910. She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.