Career (United Kingdom) | |
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Name: | HMS Griffon |
Builder: | Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead |
Laid down: | 7 March 1896 |
Launched: | 21 November 1896 |
Completed: | November 1897 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Earnest-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 395 long tons (401 t) |
Length: | 210 ft (64 m) |
Beam: | 21.5 ft (6.6 m) |
Draught: | 9.75 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion: | vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 6,300 hp (4,698 kW) |
Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement: | 63 |
Armament: | 1 × QF 12-pounder gun 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMS Griffon was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1896.
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