HMS Paragon was an Acasta-class destroyer

Acasta class destroyer

The Acasta class was a class of twenty destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the Naval Programme of 1911 - 1912 that saw service during World War I...

 that served in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 during the First World War. She was launched in 1913, and joined the Fourth Flotilla upon completion. Serving with the Grand Fleet in August 1914, Paragon moved to the Humber

Humber

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 in the summer of 1916, then to Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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, then to Devonport

HMNB Devonport

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 by 1917. On 17 March 1917, fighting alongside in an action in the Dover Strait

Action of 17 March 1917

The Action of 17 March 1917 was a German raid on British shipping in the Strait of Dover as well as the harbours of Ramsgate and Margate. Two flotillas of German torpedo boats set out from the coast of Flanders and split...

with eight German torpedo boats, Paragon was sunk by torpedo.