HMS Dove (1898)

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HMS Dove
Career
Name: HMS Dove
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 21 March 1898
Fate: Broken up, 1920
General characteristics
Class and type: Bullfinch-class destroyer
Displacement: 345 long tons (351 t)
Length: 210 ft (64 m)
Propulsion: Thornycroft boilers, 5,800 hp (4,325 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 63
Armament: • 1 × 12-pounder gun
• 2 × torpedo tubes

HMS Dove was one of two Bullfinch-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy.[1]. She was launched in Hull on 21 March 1898, served in home waters through the Great War and was broken up in 1920.

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