HMS Amazon (1908)

HMS Amazon
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Amazon
Builder:	J I Thornycroft
Launched:	29 July 1908
Fate:	Sold for Scrap
Status:	Scrapped 1919
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement:	970 long tons (986 t)
Length:	280 ft 4 in (85.45 m) (p/p)
Beam:	26 ft 8 in (8.13 m)
Draught:	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power:	6 × Thornycroft boilers about 14,000 shp (10,000 kW) (turbine)
Propulsion:	3 shafts 3 steam turbines
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range:	1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	68
Armament:	3 × QF 12-pounder 12-cwt[Note 1] guns

HMS Amazon was a Tribal-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She survived the First World War and was sold in 1919. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.

Notes

Footnotes

References

• Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9. 
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. 
• Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam & Co. 

External links

• HMS Amazon, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
• "Royal Navy Log Books - HMS Amazon". naval-history.net. Retrieved 2013-12-20.  OldWeather.org transcription of ship's logbooks August to October 1916