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Name: MARKSMAN
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 20/07/1914
Launched: 28/04/1915
Completed: 18/11/1915
Builder: R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 473
Dimensions: 1625disp, 315.0 x 31.8 x 11.0(draft)ft
Engines: 3 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 36000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
18/11/1915 British Royal Navy
08/11/1921 Broken up
Comments: A member of the Marksman Class of destroyer leaders
08/11/1921: Sold for breaking up by Slough TC
Subsequently resold & broken up in Germany


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum