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Swordfish-class destroyer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Spitfire was one of two Swordfish-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 7 June 1895 by Armstrong Mitchell & Co. at Newcastle upon Tyne[1] and sold off in 1912. Her fate is unknown.
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Spitfire |
Namesake | Spitfire |
Ordered | 1893 |
Builder | Armstrong Mitchell & Co., Elswick, Tyne and Wear |
Laid down | 1894 |
Launched | 7 June 1895 |
Commissioned | November 1896 |
Decommissioned | 1912 |
Fate | Sold, 1912 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Swordfish-class destroyer |
Propulsion | Yarrow boilers |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Armament |
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Spitfire served in home waters. In early February 1900 she had repairs at Chatham, before joining the Medway instructional flotilla on 26 February to replace HMS Coquette, whose crew under the command of Lieutenant Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall turned over to her from 7 March.[2][3] She was tender to Wildfire, the shore establishment at Sheerness. She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers in 1902.[4] On 7 May 1902 she was commissioned as tender to the cruiser Immortalité, which itself served as a sea-going tender at Sheerness.[5]
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