Name: | AFRIDI |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 10/08/1906 |
Launched: | 08/05/1907 |
Completed: | 08/09/1908 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | Elswick |
Yard Number: | 777 |
Dimensions: | 833disp, 250.0 x 25.0 x 7.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 3 x Steam turbines, 14250shp |
Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 3 x Screws, 33.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 5 x 1 x 12pdr QF guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
(1916: 2 x 1 x 4.7ins guns, 4 x depth charges) | |
History: | |
08/09/1908 | British Royal Navy |
09/12/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Delayed completion due to industrial action, bad weather & poor speed |
Propellers needed to be replaced | |
09/12/1919: Sold to F Wilkinson for breaking up |
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