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HMS Goldfinch (1910)

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Name
  
HMS Goldfinch

Displacement
  
772 long tons (784 t)

Draught
  
8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)

Length
  
75 m

Class and type
  
Acorn-class destroyer

Beam
  
25.2 ft (7.7 m)

Launched
  
12 July 1910

Draft
  
2.59 m

Fate
  
Wrecked, 19 February 1915 broken up for scrap, April 1919

Builder
  
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

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.

References

HMS Goldfinch (1910) Wikipedia