HMS Tarpon (1917)
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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.[1] 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.
sister ship HMS Skate in 1942 | |
History | |
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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 and 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 |
Armament |
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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.