| HMAS Marguerite | |
|---|---|
 HMAS Marguerite in 1920 | |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | HMS Marguerite |
| Builder: | Dunlop Bremner & Company, Port Glasgow, Scotland |
| Laid down: | July 1915 |
| Launched: | 23 November 1915 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Australia, 1919 |
| Career (Australia) | |
| Name: | HMAS Marguerite |
| Acquired: | 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 17 January 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 July 1929 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target, 1 August 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Arabis-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,250 long tons (1,270 t) |
| Length: |
255 ft 3 in (77.80 m) p/p 267 ft 9 in (81.61 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
| Propulsion: |
1 × 4-cylinder triple expansion engine 2 × cylindrical boilers 1 screw |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) with max. 260 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 79 |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 4 or 4.7 inch guns • 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) AA guns |
HMAS Marguerite was an Arabis-class sloop laid down for the Royal Navy by Dunlop Bremner & Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in July 1915 and launched on 23 November 1915.
The ship was transferred to Australia in 1919 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 17 January 1920, receiving the prefix HMAS.
Marguerite paid off on 23 July 1929 and was sunk as a target on 1 August 1935.
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