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Name: HOPE
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 09/12/1909
Launched: 06/09/1910
Completed: 02/03/1911
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 861
Dimensions: 730disp - 780disp, 246.5 x 25.3 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines: 3 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 13500shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 2 x 12pdr QF guns, 2 x 1 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
02/03/1911 British Royal Navy
02/1920 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Acorn Class of destroyers
02/1920: Sold at Malta for breaking up


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