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Name: BOADICEA
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 12/07/1929
Launched: 23/09/1930
Completed: 07/04/1931
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 566
Dimensions: 1365disp - 1774disp, 312.0 x 32.3 x 8.6(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 34000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.9knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
07/04/1931 British Royal Navy
13/06/1944 Sank
Comments: Member of the B Class of destroyers
13/06/1944: Sunk by aerial torpedo 16m SW of Portland Bill


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