HMS Cameleon (1910)
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HMS Cameleon was one of 20 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1910, she saw active service in the First World War.
Design and description
The Acorn class marked a return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard did their own detailed design so that ships often varied in size.[1] The Acorns had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert"., a beam of Script error: No such module "convert"., and a deep draught of Script error: No such module "convert".. The ships displaced Script error: No such module "convert". at deep load and their crew numbered 72 officers and ratings.[2]
The destroyers were powered by a single Parsons steam turbine that drove three propeller shafts using steam provided by four Yarrow boilers. The engines developed a total of Script error: No such module "convert". and were designed for a speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. Cameleon reached a speed of Script error: No such module "convert". from Template:Cvt during her sea trials.[3] The Acorns had a range of Script error: No such module "convert". at a cruising speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]
The primary armament of the ships consisted of a pair of BL Script error: No such module "convert". MK VIII guns in single, unprotected pivot mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. They were also armed with two single QF 12-pounder (Script error: No such module "convert".) guns, one on each broadside between the forward and centre funnels. These destroyers were equipped with a pair of single rotating mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships and carried two reload torpedoes.[4]
Construction and career
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Cameleon was ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Programme from Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company. The ship was laid down at the company's Govan shipyard on 6 December 1909, launched on 2 June 1910 and commissioned in December. She was sold for scrap on 21 November 1921.[5]
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