HMS Albacore (1909)

	Albacore after hitting a mine in 1917
History
United Kingdom
Name	Albacore
Ordered	8 May 1908
Builder	Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Laid down	1 September 1905
Launched	9 October 1906
Commissioned	27 March 1909
Fate	Sold for scrap 1 August 1919
General characteristics
Displacement	408 long tons (415 t) normal; 44 long tons (45 t) deep load;
Length	220 ft 10 in (67.31 m) oa; 215 ft 3 in (65.61 m) pp;
Beam	21 ft 0+1⁄4 in (6.41 m)
Draught	6 ft 5+1⁄2 in (1.97 m)
Installed power	6,000 shp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Reed water tube boilers; Parsons steam turbines driving 2 shafts;
Speed	26.75 kn (49.54 km/h; 30.78 mph)
Complement	56 officers and men
Armament	3 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns; 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes;

HMS Albacore was a "thirty-knotter" destroyer of the British Royal Navy, which was later classified as part of the B class. She was built by Palmer's of Yarrow as a private venture, launching in 1906, and being purchased in 1909. She served through the First World War before being sold for scrap in 1919.

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