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HMS Sandfly (1911)

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was one of seven destroyers to go with the First Destroyer Flotilla when it was transferred from the Grand Fleet to screen the
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In common with the survivors of her class, she was laid up after World War I, and on 9 May 1921 she was sold to
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was badly holed and sinking by the bow, which made her difficult to tow, and when efforts to tow her into
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were converted to minelaying destroyers, capable of carrying 40 mines.
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tubes and had a complement of 72 men. She was launched on 9 July 1911.
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from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
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On 24 January 1915, the First Destroyer Flotilla, including
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She was built under the 1910-11 shipbuilding programme by
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and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh
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failed, she sank in 68 metres (37 fathoms) of water.
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Index

HMS Sandfly

Royal Navy Ensign
Swan Hunter
Wallsend
Acheron-class destroyer
BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns
QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
21 inch (533 mm)
torpedoes
Acheron-class destroyer
Royal Navy
World War I
Royal Navy
small biting fly of the same name
Swan Hunter
Wallsend
21 inch (533 mm)
torpedo
First Destroyer Flotilla
British Grand Fleet
Battle of Heligoland Bight
Battle of Dogger Bank
HMS Aurora
German
SMS Blücher
Third Battle Squadron

Immingham
SS Miniota

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