HMS Lynx (1913)
HMS Lynx was one of 20 Acasta-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1914 she saw active service in the First World War.
Lynx | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Lynx |
| Builder | London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company, Govan |
| Yard number | 364 |
| Laid down | 18 January 1912 |
| Launched | 20 March 1913 |
| Commissioned | January 1914 |
| Fate | Sunk by a naval mine, 9 August 1915 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Acasta-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,072 long tons (1,089 t) (deep load) |
| Length | 267 ft 6 in (81.5 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 1 steam turbine |
| Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range | 1,540 nmi (2,850 km; 1,770 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 73 |
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