HMS Amazon (D39)
HMS Amazon underway. | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Preceded by | Admiralty Modified W class |
| Succeeded by | A- and B class |
| History | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Amazon |
| Ordered | 16 July 1924 (contract 8 August 1924) |
| Builder | John I Thornycroft, Woolston |
| Laid down | 29 January 1925 |
| Launched | 27 January 1926 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1927 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 25 October 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
| Installed power | 42,000 shp (31,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 37 kn (43 mph; 69 km/h) |
| Range |
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| Capacity | 433 short tons (393 t) fuel oil |
| Complement | 138 |
| Armament |
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HMS Amazon was a prototype design of destroyer ordered for the Royal Navy in 1924. She was designed and built by Thornycroft in response to an Admiralty request for a new design of destroyer incorporating the lessons and technological advances of the First World War. Their great rivals Yarrow produced a similar, competitive design — that of Ambuscade.