Spitfire 1896

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	SPITFIRE
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	04/06/1894
Launched:	07/06/1895
Completed:	03/11/1896
Builder:	Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard:	Elswick
Yard Number:	618
Dimensions:	280disp, 200.0 x 19.0 x 5.3(draft)ft
Engines:	2 x VT3cyl (18.75, 27.25 & 28, 28 x 18ins), 4596ihp
Engines by:	GE Belliss & Co, Birmingham
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 27.7knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	1 x 12pdr QF, 5 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns, 2 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes

History:
03/11/1896	British Royal Navy
10/04/1912	Broken up

Comments:	Member of the Swordfish Class od destroyers
	10/04/1912: Broken up by TW Ward at Preston