HMS Tarpon (1917)
sister ship HMS Skate in 1942 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Tarpon |
| Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down | 12 April 1916 |
| Launched | 10 March 1917 |
| Completed | April 1917 |
| Fate | Sold 4 August 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 975 long tons (991 t) |
| Length | 276 ft (84.1 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Range | 3,440 nmi (6,370 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 82 |
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HMS Tarpon was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and operational in the First World War. She is named after the large fish Tarpon; one species of which is native to the Atlantic, and the other to the Indo-Pacific Oceans. Tarpon was built by the shipbuilders John Brown & Company at their Clydebank shipyard and was launched in March 1917 and entered service in April that year.
Tarpon served as a minelayer through the remainder of the First World War, and operated in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War. After a period attached to the Torpedo School at Portsmouth, where she was used for training and experimental purposes, Tarpon was sold for scrap in 1927.