HMS Goldfinch (1910)
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| Name: | HMS Goldfinch |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow |
| Launched: | 12 July 1910 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Acorn-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 772 long tons (784 t) |
| Length: | 246 ft (75 m) |
| Beam: | 25.2 ft (7.7 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Installed power: | 13,500 shp (10,100 kW) |
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| Speed: | 27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h) |
| Complement: | 72 |
| Armament: | 2 × BL 4 in (100 mm)/40 cal Mark VIII guns, 2 × QF 12 pdr (5.4 kg) 12 cwt Mark I guns, 2 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMS Goldfinch was an Acorn-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built in 1910. She was wrecked in fog on Start Point, Sanday, one of the northern Orkney Isles, on the night of 18–19 February 1915. She was broken up for scrap in April 1919.
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