| Name: | IMPERIAL |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 28/01/1936 |
| Launched: | 11/12/1936 |
| Completed: | 30/06/1937 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 605 |
| Dimensions: | 1370disp - 18888disp, 312.0 x 33.0 x 8.8.4ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, Parsons type, 34000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.3knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns, 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 30/06/1937 | British Royal Navy |
| 29/05/1941 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the I Class of destroyers; Cost £256,117 |
| Completion delayed by the late delivery of gun mountings | |
| 29/05/1941: Stearing gear damaged by near misses from aircraft srikes off Crete. | |
| Crew taken off and sunk by torpedo from HMS HOTSPUR |
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