HMS Phoenix (1911)
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HMS Phoenix
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| Name: | HMS Phoenix |
| Builder: | Vickers Limited of Barrow-in-Furness |
| Launched: | 9 October 1911 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 14 May 1918 by the Austrian submarine SM U-27 |
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| Class and type: | Acheron-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 990 tons |
| Length: | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.8 m (26 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.7 m (8.9 ft) |
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| Speed: | 28 kt (66.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 72 |
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HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was the only British warship ever to be sunk by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
Phoenix was ordered during the building programme of 1910-1911 and laid down by Vickers Limited of Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched on 9 October 1911. Capable of 28 knots (52 km/h), she carried two 4-inch (102 mm) guns, other smaller guns and 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes and had a complement of 72 men.
At the beginning of the First World War, Phoenix was part of the First Destroyer Flotilla operating in the North Sea. She and her sisters were attached to the Grand Fleet as soon as the war started.
On 16 August 1914, within days of the outbreak of war, the First Destroyer Flotilla engaged an enemy cruiser off the mouth of the Elbe, which is reported with great verve by an author writing under the pseudonym "Clinker Knocker" in 1938:
She was present with First Destroyer Flotilla on 28 August 1914 at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, led by the light cruiser Fearless.Phoenix suffered one man wounded during the action
On 24 January 1915 Phoenix took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank, and her crew shared in the Prize Money for the German armoured cruiser Blücher.
Phoenix was not present with her flotilla at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.
Phoenix was escorting the Australian troopship Ballarat when she was attacked by a German submarine on Anzac Day (25 April) 1917 in the English Channel. Although efforts were made to tow Ballarat to shallow water, she sank off The Lizard the following morning. No lives were lost of the 1,752 souls on board, a striking testament to the calmness and discipline of the troops.
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