Name: | SARPEDON |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 27/09/1915 |
Launched: | 01/06/1916 |
Completed: | 02/09/1916 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 483 |
Dimensions: | 975disp - 1035disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
02/09/1916 | British Royal Navy |
23/07/1926 | Sold for breaking up |
Comments: | 23/07/1926: Sold to Alloa Shipbreaking Co Ltd for £4815 |
06/11/1926: Demolition commenced at Rosyth | |
07/12/1926: Hulk taken to Charlestown for breaking up |
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