HMS Paragon (1913)
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Career (UK) |
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Name: |
HMS Paragon |
Builder: |
John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston |
Launched: |
21 February 1913 |
Fate: |
Sunk on 18 March 1917 |
General characteristics |
Class and type: | Acasta-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 917 tons |
Length: | 265 ft (81 m) |
Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Installed power: | 22,500 ihp (16,800 kW) |
Propulsion: |
- 2-shaft Parsons steam turbines
- Yarrow-type oil-fired boilers
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Speed: | 29 kn (54 km/h) |
Complement: | 75 |
Armament: |
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HMS Paragon was an Acasta-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was launched in 1913, and joined the Fourth Flotilla upon completion. Serving with the Grand Fleet in August 1914, Paragon moved to the Humber in the summer of 1916, then to Portsmouth, then to Devonport by 1917.[1] On 17 March 1917, fighting alongside HMS Llewellyn in an action in the Dover Strait with eight German torpedo boats, Paragon was sunk by torpedo.[2]
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| Builders' Special K class | |
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- Alexandrino de Alencar / Maranhão (ex-Porpoise)
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- Names beginning with "K" were assigned in September 1913, but never used
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- List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
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