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Name: TIGRESS
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 13/02/1911
Launched: 20/12/1911
Completed: 30/03/1912
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 444
Dimensions: 750disp - 790disp, 246.0 x 26.0 x 8.9(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:
30/03/1912 British Royal Navy
09/05/1921 Broken up
Comments: A member of the Acheron Class of Destroyers
09/05/1921: Sold for breaking up at Milford Haven by TW Ward Ltd
09/1922: Arrived at Milford Haven to be broken up


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