- Construction and design
- Service
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= United Kingdom | United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Scorpion | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 19 February 1910 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=30 August 1910 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Beagle|destroyer}} | 860|-|940|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} | 275|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 27|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 8|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 12500|HP|kW|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines | 27|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship complement=96 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | 4|in|mm|sing=on}} L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V- 3 × QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I
- 2 × single 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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}} | HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen {{sclass-|Beagle|destroyer}}s in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910. [1] She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.[2]Construction and designScorpion was laid down at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's Govan, Glasgow shipyard on 3 May 1909 and was launched on 19 February 1910, completing in August 1910.[3]ServiceThe first commander of HMS Scorpion was the then Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Cunningham. Early days in Scorpion included the Spithead Naval Review of 1911 that stood out in Cunningham's mind as the zenith of British naval power with twenty-six miles of ships including 42 battleships and 68 destroyers. In 1913 the period in home waters came to an end with Scorpion posted to the Mediterranean. The early part of the war saw her involved in the chase of the German battlecruiser {{Ship|SMS|Goeben||2}} and the Dardanelles Campaign. Scorpion was always at the forefront of the action; her role included escorting bombarding ships, covering minesweeping trawlers and, later, acting as a minesweeper herself.[4] References- Notes
1. ^The Times (London), Wednesday, 31 August 1910, p.5
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/beagle_class.htm |title=Beagle Class Destroyer 1909 - 1910 |publisher=battleships-cruisers.co.uk |accessdate=20 April 2015}}
3. ^Friedman 2009, p. 306.
4. ^Ward-McQuaid, John. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223536/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/warships/vessel.asp?id=3386 "HMS Scorpion 1910-2-19"]. clydesite.co.UK. Archived from the original 26 September 2007.
- References
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|location=Barnsley, UK|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Gardiner|editor-first1=Robert|editor-last2=Gray|editor-first2=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5}}
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