HMAS Swordsman
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HMAS Swordsman (H11) 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 was transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with most of it spent moored in Sydney. Swordsman was decommissioned in 1929, and scuttled off Sydney in 1939.[1]
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Builder | Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
Laid down | 1917 |
Launched | 28 December 1918 |
Completed | March 1919 |
Commissioned | 27 January 1920 |
Decommissioned | 21 December 1929 |
Fate | Scuttled off Sydney, 8 February 1939 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Admiralty S-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,075 tons |
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Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × Yarrow boilers, Brown-Curtis turbines, 27,000 shp (20,000 kW), 2 shafts |
Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 2,990 nautical miles (5,540 km; 3,440 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 93 sailors |
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