HMAS Tasmania
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HMAS Tasmania (H25) was an Admiralty S class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent a year commissioned but not operational in British service before being transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with almost all of it spent in Australian waters. Tasmania was decommissioned in 1930, and was sold for ship breaking in 1937.
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Australia | |
Namesake | State of Tasmania |
Builder | William Beardmore and Company |
Laid down | 18 December 1917 |
Launched | 22 November 1918 |
Completed | 22 January 1919 |
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Decommissioned | 9 January 1928 |
Fate | Sold for scrap on 4 June 1937 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty S class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,075 tons |
Length | 275 ft 10.625 in (84.08988 m) length overall |
Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × Yarrow boilers, Brown-Curtis turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW), 2 shafts |
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Range | 2,589 nautical miles (4,795 km; 2,979 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 93 sailors |
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