HMS Seafire
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HMS Seafire was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She saw service during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The ship was sold for scrap in 1936.
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Seafire circa 1918 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Seafire |
Ordered | July 1917 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Yard number | 478[1] |
Laid down | 27 February 1918 |
Launched | 10 August 1918 |
Commissioned | November 1918 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 14 September 1936 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | S-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) (normal) |
Length | 276 ft (84.1 m) o/a |
Beam | 26 ft 8 in (8.1 m) |
Draught | 9 ft 10 in (3 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 Shafts; 1 steam turbine |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 82 |
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