HMS Donovan (1918)

For other ships of this name, see HMS Donovan.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Donovan
Builder:	Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company
Launched:	27 April 1918
Fate:	Sold for scrapping on 15 November 1922
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,320 long tons (1,341 t) standard
Length:	258 ft (79 m) p/p 267 ft 6 in (81.53 m) o/a
Beam:	35 ft (11 m)
Draught:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion:	4-cylinder triple expansion engine, 2,500 ihp 2 cylindrical boilers 1 screw
Speed:	17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Range:	260 tons of coal
Complement:	82
Armament:	As designed: 2 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 39 depth charges

HMS Donovan was a Royal Navy 24 class sloop.

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. OCLC 67375475.

24-class sloops

Royal Navy	Ard Patrick Bend Or Cicero Donovan Flying Fox Galtee More Harvester Iroquois Isinglass Ladas Merry Hampton Minoru Orby Ormonde Persimmon Rocksand Sanfoin Sefton Silvio Sir Bevis Sir Hugo Sir Visto Spearmint Sunstar

Royal Australian Navy	Moresby

Preceded by: P class Followed by: Bridgewater class List of sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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