HMS Scorpion (1910)

Scorpion in Valletta harbour, Malta, 1915
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Scorpion
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan
Launched	19 February 1910
Commissioned	30 August 1910
Fate	Sold for breaking up, 26 October 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Beagle-class destroyer
Displacement	860–940 long tons (874–955 t)
Length	275 ft (84 m)
Beam	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power	12,500 hp (9,300 kW)
Propulsion	Coal-fired boilers, 2 or 3 shaft steam turbines
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement	96
Armament	1 × BL 4-inch (100 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V 3 × QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I 2 × single 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen Beagle-class destroyers in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910.^[1] She was a coal powered ship and as such was obsolete by the end of the First World War and was scrapped in 1921.^[2]