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Friday, 14 August 2020

British destroyer HMS Hope launched according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1911 No. 11

An item reported the launching of the British destroyer HMS Hope at the Wallsend shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson on 6 September [1911]. She was on of the 20 destroyers built under the Building program of 1909-1911. The main engines (Parsons turbines) were manufactured by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. driving 3 shafts and crews. The same company delivered also the four petrol fired Yarrow boilers. Her speed was to be 27 knots. Displacement was 780 tons.(1)

Note
Of the Acorn-class, preceded by Beagle-class and succeeded by Acheron-class, laid down on 9 December 1909, launched on 6 September 1910, completed in March 1911 and in February 1920 sold at Malta to be scrapped.

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