HMS Bullfinch (1898)
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HMS Bullfinch was a three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates. She was the third ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1857 for a 4-gun wooden-screw gunboat.[3][4]
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HMS Bullfinch | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Bullfinch |
Ordered | 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates |
Builder | Earl's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Hull, Yorkshire |
Laid down | 17 September 1896 |
Launched | 10 February 1898 |
Commissioned | June 1901 |
Out of service | Laid up in reserve 1919 |
Fate | 10 June 1919 to Young of Sunderland for breaking |
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Class and type | Three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer[1][2] |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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Complement | 60 officers and men |
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Service record | |
Operations: | World War I 1914 - 1918 |
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