&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Hornet_(1911).jpg) HMS Hornet
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| Name | HMS Hornet |
| Builder | John Brown & Company of Clydebank[1] |
| Yard number | 405[2] |
| Laid down | 24 January 1911[2] |
| Launched | 20 December 1911[3] |
| Fate | Sold 9 May 1921[3] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Acheron-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 990 long tons (1,010 t) |
| Length | 246 ft (75 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught | 8.9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Installed power | 13,500 shp (10,100 kW) |
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| Speed | 28 kn (32 mph; 52 km/h)[2] |
| Complement | 72 |
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HMS Hornet was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet, after the insect.
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