HMS Avon (1896)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}
{{Other ships|HMS Avon}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United kingdom | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name=Avon | Ship ordered=1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates | Ship builder= Barrow Shipbuilders and Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness | Ship laid down=17 February 1896 | Ship launched=10 October 1896 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=February 1899 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=Laid up in reserve 1919 | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate= 1 July 1920 sold to Castle of Plymouth for breaking | Ship honours= | Ship badge= | Ship motto= | Ship identification= | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header=no |Header caption= |Ship class=Vickers three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title=Jane’s Fighting Ships 1905 |orig-year=1905 |year=1969 |publisher= first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company |location=New York |page=77}}{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title= Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I |year=1990 |orig-year= 1919, reprinted |publisher= Jane’s Publishing © 1919 |isbn=1 85170 378 0 |page=77}} |Ship displacement=*{{cvt|355|LT|t|0}} standard
|Ship propulsion=*4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler
|Ship speed= {{convert|30|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} |Ship range=*70 tons coal
| Ship complement= 63 officers and men | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I Low angle mount
| Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes= }} |
HMS Avon was a Vickers three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895–1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1805 for an 18-gun brig-sloop, sunk in 1847.{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title= Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898 |orig-year=1898 |year=1969 |publisher= first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company |location=New York |pages=84 to 85}}Jane, Fred T. (1990). p. 76.
Construction and career
She was laid down on 17 February 1896, at the Barrow Shipbuilding Company shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness, and launched on 10 October 1896. During her builder's trials she made her contracted speed requirement. In 1897 during the construction of these ships, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was purchases by Vickers, Sons and Maxim and renamed as the Naval Construction and Armaments Shipyard. Avon was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in January 1899. After commissioning, HMS Avon was assigned to the East Coast Flotilla based at Harwich. She was deployed in Home waters for her entire service life.
In early January 1901 she was part of the Medway instructional flotilla,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=7 January 1901 |page=8 |issue=36345}} as Lieutenant John Roderick Segrave was appointed in command on 23 January.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=10 January 1901 |page=8 |issue=36348}} In early March 1902 she was at Chatham for repairs, after encountering a heavy gale during a cruise,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=11 March 1902 |page=11 |issue=36712}} and the following month she was paid off and her crew transferred to the destroyer {{HMS|Swordfish|1895|2}}.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=28 April 1902 |page=8 |issue=36753}} She subsequently had her boiler retubed at Chatham dockyard.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=1 August 1902 |page=8 |issue=36835}}
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. Since her design speed was {{convert|30|knots}} and she had three funnels, she was assigned to the {{nobr|C Class}}. After 30 September 1913, she was known as a C-class destroyer and had the letter ‘C’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.{{cite book |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 |year=2006 |orig-year= 1985, reprinted 1986, 1997, 2002, 2006 |publisher= Conway Maritime Press |isbn=0 85177 245 5 |pages=17 to 19}}
=World War I=
For the test mobilization in July 1914 she was assigned to the 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Devonport tendered to {{HMS|Leander|1882|2}}, destroyer depot ship to the 7th Flotilla. In September 1914 the 7th was redeployed to the Humber River. Her employment within the Humber Patrol included anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols.
In November 1916 she deployed to the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla until the cessation of hostilities, providing anti-submarine and counter-smuggling patrols following the Easter Uprising of 1916 in Dublin.
In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal. She was sold on 1 July 1920 to Castle of Plymouth for breaking.{{cite web |title= "Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class |url= http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm |access-date=1 June 2013}}
Pennant Numbers
References
NOTE: All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified
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Bibliography
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Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness