HMS Hornet (1911)
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HMS Hornet
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hornet |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company of Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 405 |
| Laid down: | 24 January 1911 |
| Launched: | 20 December 1911 |
| Fate: | Sold 9 May 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Acheron-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 990 long tons (1,010 t) |
| Length: | 246 ft (75 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught: | 8.9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Installed power: | 13,500 shp (10,100 kW) |
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| Speed: | 28 kn (32 mph; 52 km/h) |
| Complement: | 72 |
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HMS Hornet was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet, after the insect of the same name.
She was built under the 1910-11 shipbuilding programme by John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Glasgow. She (and her sister ships Hind and Hydra) differed from the standard Admiralty I-class destroyer in only having two shafts instead of three. They had two Brown-Curtis type steam turbines, and twin boilers. Capable of 28 kn (32 mph; 52 km/h), she carried two 4 in (100 mm) guns, other smaller guns and two 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes and had a complement of 72 men. She was launched on 20 December 1911.
Hornet served with the First Destroyer Flotilla from 1911 and, with her flotilla, joined the British Grand Fleet in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War.
On 24 January 1915, the First Destroyer Flotilla — including Hornet — were present at the Battle of Dogger Bank, led by the light cruiser Aurora. Her crew shared in the prize money for the German armoured cruiser Blücher.
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