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Acorn, 1884
Type: Screw Sloop ;
Launched : 6 Sep 1884 ;
Disposal date or year : 1900
Displacement: 970 tons
Complement: 138
Machinery notes: 1380 HP ; Speed ; 12 knots ;
Notes:
22 Feb 1887 Commissioned at Devonport for service in the Pacific
1890 Pacific
Feb 1900 Sold out of service, since, following a survey at Sheerness, prior to refit, it was found she was defective and not worth the cost of repairing. The Acorn has only served two commissions ; one on the Pacific Station ; and on the South East Coast of America, where she was last employed.
Acorn, 1910-1921
Type: Torpedo Boat Destroyer ;
Launched : 1910 ;
Disposal date or year : 1921
Displacement: 760-780 tons
Complement: 72
Machinery notes: Parsons turbines ; Speed ; 27.2 knots duirng trials ;
Notes:
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."