HMS Amazon  (D39)

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Navy: RN
Type: Destroyer
Class: Prototype 
Pennant: D 39 
Built by: Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered: 12 Jun, 1924 
Laid down: 29 Jan, 1925 
Launched: 27 Jan, 1926 
Commissioned: 5 May, 1927 
History: On first trials HMS Amazon reached only 34.5 knots. After modifications she achieved 38.7 knots six months later.

Scrapped at Troon, Scotland starting on 6 October 1948. 

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