Name: | BRILLIANT |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 08/07/1929 |
Launched: | 09/10/1930 |
Completed: | 21/02/1931 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1409 |
Dimensions: | 1360disp - 1790disp, 312.0 x 32.2 x 12.3(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 34000hp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
2 x depth charge throwers | |
History: | |
21/02/1931 | British Royal Navy |
21/02/1948 | Broken up |
Comments: | Cost £221,638 to build, excluding Admiralty supplied items such as weapons |
21/02/1948: Sold to BISCO for demolition | |
04/1948: Broken up at Troon by West of Scotland Shipbreakers |
Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo courtesy of Photoship