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HMS Tartar (1907)
Career (UK) RN Ensign
Name: HMS Tartar
Builder: J I Thornycroft
Launched: 25 June 1907
Fate: Sold for scrap 1921
General characteristics
Class & type: Tribal-class destroyer
Length: 255 ft (78 m)
Beam: 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draught: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Speed: 33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Engine room of the HMS Tartar

Engine room of the HMS Tartar. Photo caption from Popular Mechanics magazine March 1909

HMS Tartar was a Tribal class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1907 and sold in 1921. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.

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