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Name: LAERTES launched as SARPEDON
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 06/07/1912
Launched: 06/06/1913
Completed: 21/10/1913
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 937
Dimensions: 980disp - 1026disp, 260.0 x 27.0 x 8.6(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 24,500shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 31.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 1 x 1.5pdr AA guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
21/10/1913 British Royal Navy
01/12/1921 Broken up
Comments: A member of the LAFOREY class of destroyers
06/06/1913: Launched as SARPEDON
30/09/1913: Renamed LAERTES
24/08/1914: Damaged and immobilised at the Battle of Heligoland Bight
Towed back to the UK for repair
25/04/1916: Damaged by shellfire during German bombardment of Yarmouth & Lowestoft
01/12/1921: Sold for breaking up at Dover by Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Co Ltd
08/03/1922: Arrived at the breakers after stranding near Newhaven during the tow


Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum, Stephen Cribb collection

Jarrow Express, Friday, 13/06/1913