HMS Avon (1896)

Career
Name: HMS Avon
Builder: Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 10 October 1896[1]
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 1920
General characteristics
Class and type: Avon-class destroyer
Displacement: 385 long tons (391 t)
Length: 210 ft (64 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Complement: 63
Armament: • 1 × 12-pounder gun
• 5 × 6-pounder guns
• 2 × torpedo tubes

HMS Avon was one of three Avon-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Vickers in 1896, served during the First World War in home waters and was sold off after the end of hostilities in 1920.

References

  1. ^ "HMS Avon". pbenyon.plus.com. http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/A/00418.html. Retrieved 26 July 2010.