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Name: P 31
Type: Patrol Boat
Keel:
Launched: 05/02/1916
Completed: 1916
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields (Admiralty control)
Yard Number: 5
Dimensions: 613disp, 230.0 x 23.75 x 8.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, 3500ihp
Engines by:
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 20.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 1 x 14.0inch torpedoes
Depth charge racks
History:
1916 British Royal Navy
16/12/1926 Broken up
Comments: Member of the P Class of patrol boats or sloops
16/12/1926: Broken up by Demellweek & Redding at Plymouth


Above photo copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Model of typical P Class Sloop copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Model of typical P Class Sloop copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above model has a 2nd 4.0ins gun fitted on the after deck. Not fitted on P 31