HMS Orcadia

HMS Orcadia was a Repeat Admiralty M-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The M class was an improvement on those of the preceding L class, capable of higher speed. Orcadia had a largely uneventful war. Joining the Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet in 1917, the ship was dispatched from the flotilla to the naval base Portsmouth, serving with the Local Defence Flotilla. The destroyer was allocated to the paravave depot, operating there into 1918. The paravane was a weapon used in anti-submarine warfare and minesweeping, although it lost favour with the Royal Navy as the war progressed. After the Armistice that ended the war, Orcadia remained with the Local Defence Flotilla at Portsmouth and was sold in 1921 to be broken up.

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Admiralty M-class destroyer, destroyer, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

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