HMS Hornet (1911)

	HMS Hornet
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hornet
Builder	John Brown & Company of Clydebank
Yard number	405
Laid down	24 January 1911
Launched	20 December 1911
Fate	Sold 9 May 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	990 long tons (1,010 t)
Length	246 ft (75 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught	8.9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power	13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Brown-Curtis steam turbines; 2 × Yarrow boilers; 2 × shafts;
Speed	28 kn (32 mph; 52 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × BL 4 in (100 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns; 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns; 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Hornet was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet, after the insect.

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