HMS Paragon (1913)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Paragon.

HMS Paragon was an Acasta-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was launched in 1913, and joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla upon completion. Serving with the Grand Fleet in August 1914, Paragon moved to the Humber in the summer of 1916, then to Portsmouth, then to Devonport by 1917.^[1] On 17 March 1917, fighting alongside HMS Llewellyn in an action in the Dover Strait with eight German torpedo boats, Paragon was sunk by torpedo.^[2]

Paragon
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Paragon
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
Launched	21 February 1913
Fate	Sunk 17 March 1917
General characteristics
Class and type	Acasta-class destroyer
Displacement	917 tons
Length	265 ft (80.8 m)
Beam	26 ft 6 in (8.1 m)
Installed power	22,500 ihp (16,800 kW)
Propulsion	2-shaft Parsons steam turbines Yarrow-type oil-fired boilers
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Complement	75
Armament	3 × QF 4 in (102 mm) L/40 Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX 1 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II 2 × single tubes for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes

Notes

1. "Destroyers Before 1918"
2. Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 260.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.