HMS Contest

HMS Contest was an Acasta-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at their Newcastle upon Tyne shipyard, and was launched on 7 January 1913, being completed in June that year. Contest served in the First World War, and supported the Grand Fleet until 1916. The destroyer took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May/1 June 1916. Later that year, Contest moved to The Humber, and then to the English Channel for anti-submarine and escort duties. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on 18 September 1917.

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speed 32 knot, beam 8.15 metre, mass 984 long ton, length 81.53 metre, 
Acasta-class destroyer, destroyer, R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

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