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Name: BULLDOG
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 10/08/1929
Launched: 06/12/1930
Completed: 08/04/1931
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1411
Dimensions: 1360disp - 1790disp, 312.0 x 32.3 x 12.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 34000hp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
2 x depth charge throwers
History:
08/04/1931 British Royal Navy
05/01/1946 Broken up
Comments: Cost £221,408 to build, excluding Admiralty supplied items such as weapons
05/01/1946: Sold to Metal Industries (Salvage) Ltd
17/01/1946: Arrived at Rosyth for breaking up


Above launch photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

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