HMS Acorn

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Acorn, 1910-1921
Type: Torpedo Boat Destroyer ; Armament 2 x 4", 2 x 12 pdr ;
Launched : 1910 ; Disposal date or year : 1921
Displacement: 760 tons
Complement: 72
Machinery notes: Parsons turbines H.P. (13,500 F.D.) ; Speed ; 27.2 knots during trials ;
Manned : Devonport ;
Notes:

NL Mar 1913 Second Destroyer Flotilla. Tender to Blake.

NL Jan 1915 tender to Blake.

Nov 1914 sent to Scapa Flow, where she was based for much of the war, apart from "the occasion of the rescue of some three hundred officers and men belonging to the King Edward VII. when she was sunk by a mine off the Orkneys, and the Battle of Jutland."