HMS Scorpion (1910)

	Scorpion in Valletta harbour, Malta, 1915
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Scorpion
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan
Launched	19 February 1910
Commissioned	30 August 1910
Fate	Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Beagle-class destroyer
Displacement	860–940 long tons (874–955 t)
Length	275 ft (84 m)
Beam	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power	12,500 hp (9,300 kW)
Propulsion	Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement	96
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (100 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V; 3 × QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I; 2 × single 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen Beagle-class destroyers in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910. She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.

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