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She was lost to a torpedo hit at the [[Dover Straits Action]].
  
 
==Captains==
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Revision as of 18:47, 22 April 2014

H.M.S. Paragon (1913)
Pendant Number: H.26 (1914)[1]
Builder: Thornycroft[2]
Launched: 21 Feb, 1913[3]
Sunk: 18 Mar, 1917[4]
Fate: in Dover Straits Action

H.M.S. Paragon was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

She was lost to a torpedo hit at the Dover Straits Action.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 365.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Acasta Achates Ambuscade Christopher Cockatrice
Contest Shark Sparrowhawk Spitfire Lynx
  Midge Owl  
Thornycroft Specials
Hardy Paragon Porpoise Unity Victor
Other Specials
  Ardent Fortune Garland  
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