''Avon''-class destroyer was a class of three

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s that served in the

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. These three funnelled 30 knot vessels were redesignated C-class destroyers in the reorganisation of 1913. The three ships, ''Avon'', ''Bittern'' and ''Otter'', were built by Vickers at Barrow, were 210 feet long and their

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s produced 6,300 HP and 30 knots. They were armed with the standard twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men.

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