HMS Goldfinch (1910)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Goldfinch
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow
Launched: 12 July 1910
Fate:
  • Wrecked, 19 February 1915
  • broken up for scrap, April 1919
General characteristics
Class and type: Acorn-class destroyer
Displacement: 772 long tons (784 t)
Length: 246 ft (75 m)
Beam: 25.2 ft (7.7 m)
Draught: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power: 13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h)
Complement: 72
Armament: 2 × BL 4 in (100 mm)/40 cal Mark VIII guns, 2 × QF 12 pdr (5.4 kg) 12 cwt Mark I guns, 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Goldfinch was an Acorn-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built in 1910. She was wrecked in fog on Start Point, Sanday, one of the northern Orkney Isles, on the night of 18–19 February 1915. She was broken up for scrap in April 1919.

Construction and service

Goldfinch was laid down at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's Govan, Glasgow shipyard on 23 February 1910 and was launched on 12 July 1910 and was completed in February 1911.[1]

On commissioning, Goldfinch joined the Second Destroyer Flotilla. On the night of 11 March 1911, a fire broke out in the radio room of Goldfinch, destroying the radio equipment.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Friedman 2009
  2. ↑ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 33. April 1911. p. 335.
  • 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.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
  • "Acorn Class". History of the World's Navies. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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