Border 1942

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built

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Name:	BORDER
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	01/05/1941
Launched:	03/02/1942
Completed:	05/08/1942
Builder:	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard:	Wallsend
Yard Number:	1645
Dimensions:	1050disp - 1430disp, 264.2 x 31.5 x 8.3(draft)ft
Engines:	2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 19000shp
Engines by:	Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	2 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr guns; 1 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
	4 x depth charge throwers, 2 depth charge rails
History:
05/08/1942	British Royal Navy
05/08/1942	Transferred to Royal Hellenic Navy; renamed ADRIAS
1945	British Royal Navy
11/1945	Broken up

Comments:	A member of the Hunt Type III Class of destroyers
	Not commissioned into the British Royal Navy but transferred at completion
	26/08/1942: Ran aground near Scapa Flow. Refloated and repaired
	22/10/1943: Struck mine near Kalymnos Island and lost all structure forward of bridge
	06/12/1943: Arrived in damaged condition at Alexandria
	1944: New fore body constructed by Swan Hunter as Yard No 1735
	1945: Returned to the British Royal Navy
	11/1945: Broken up at Gateshead by JJ King Ltd