HMS Cameleon (1910)
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History | |
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Name: | HMS Cameleon |
Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow |
Launched: | 1910 |
Fate: | Sold for scrapping 15 November 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Acorn class destroyer |
Displacement: | 772 tons |
Length: | 246 ft (75.0 m) |
Beam: | 25.2 ft (7.7 m) |
Draught: | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 Yarrow boilers, Parsons turbines, 13,500 shp (10,100 kW) |
Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h) |
Complement: | 72 |
Armament: | 2×4" BL Mk VIII, 2×12 pdr 12 cwt, twin tubes for 21" torpedoes |
HMS Cameleon was an Acorn class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built in 1910 and sold for scrap in 1921.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- "Acorn Class". History of the World's Navies. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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