HMS Hydra (1912)

HMS "Hydra" was an "Acheron" or "I" class destroyer of the Royal Navy displacing 770 tons.

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History

She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank to an Admiralty design, under the 1910-11 programme, with two funnels rather than three (each with red and white funnel bands). Capable of 28 knots, she carried two 4-inch guns, other smaller guns and two 21-inch torpedo tubes and had a complement of 72 men.

HMS "Hydra" was launched on 19 February 1912. She was with the First Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 and at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. She was in collision with a merchant ship on the night of 11 February 1917 in the English Channel. She was sold on 9 May 1921 to Ward of Portishead for scrap.

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External links

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/markscott/tags/grandad Photographs of the ship's company]
* [http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/acheron.htm#HMS%20Hydra HMS "Hydra" at Battleships-Cruisers website] .