Maritime record MHG37648 - HMS LYNX: NORTH SEA

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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ND40SW 8001 unlocated

See also NH98NW 8002.

Length: 267ft 6ins (81.6m)
Beam: 27ft (8.2m)
Draught: 10 ft (3m)
Displacement: 936 tons
Propulsion: oil-fuelled steam turbines: two screws: 24,500hp; 29 kts
Guns: 3 x 4 ins (102mm)
Torpedo tubes: 2 x 21 ins (533mm)
Complement: 75/77
This destroyer of the Admiralty Design variant of the K (Acasta) class was built by London and Glasgow (later Harland and Wolff) at Glasgow, to the Admiralty Design and as part of the 1911-12 programme. She was completed in 1913 and mined off the Moray Firth in 1915.
(This class of ships varied significantly between variants: dimensions cited relate to the Admiralty Design Boats).
H M Le Fleming 1961; [Jane] 2001.

The map sheet allocated to this record is arbitrary. It may alternatively fall within either of the quasi-administrative areas Maritime - Moray or Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 November 2001.