| HMS Seafire (1918) | |
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| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Seafire |
| Ordered: | July 1917 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Launched: | 10 August 1918 |
| Fate: | Handed over for scrapping on 14 September 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | S-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,075 long ton |
| Length: | 276 ft (84 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Propulsion: | Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | 250-300 tons of oil |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Armament: |
3 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX |
| Notes: | Pennant number: G68 |
HMS Seafire was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.[1] She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank and launched on 10 August 1918. She saw service during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. She was one of the obsolete destroyers handed over to the shipbreakers Ward in part-payment for RMS Majestic on 14 September 1936, and was then broken up at Inverkeithing.
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- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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