HMS Hydra (1912)
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HMS Hydra was an Acheron or "I" class destroyer of the Royal Navy displacing 770 tons.
She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank to an Admiralty design, under the 1910-11 programme, with two funnels rather than three (each with red and white funnel bands). Capable of 28 knots, she carried two 4-inch guns, other smaller guns and two 21-inch torpedo tubes and had a complement of 72 men
HMS Hydra was launched on 19 February 1912. She was with the First Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 and at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. She was in collision with a merchant ship on the night of 11 February 1917 in the English Channel. She was sold on 9 May 1921 to Ward of Portishead for scrap.
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- HMS Hydra for other ships of the same name
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