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Name: NEMESIS
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 26/11/1909
Launched: 09/08/1910
Completed: 07/03/1911
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 434
Dimensions: 730disp - 780disp, 240.0 x 25.3 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines: 3 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 13500shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 2 x 1 x 12pdr QF guns; 2 x 1 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
07/03/1911 British Royal Navy
06/1917 Government of Japan; renamed KANRAN
1919 British Royal Navy
26/11/1921 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Acorn Class
06/1917: On loan to the Japanese Navy
1919: Returned to the British Royal Navy
26/11/1921: Sold to the British Legion for breaking up at Plymouth


Above photo as NEMESIS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as NEMESIS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum