Name: | DERWENT |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 11/07/1902 |
Launched: | 14/02/1903 |
Completed: | 02/07/1904 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 385 |
Dimensions: | 550disp - 625disp, 220.0 x 23.5 x 7.9(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl (20.5, 31 & 48 x 19.5ins), 7000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 25.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 12pdr QF, 5 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 2 x 18.0ins torpedo tubes |
History: | |
02/07/1904 | British Royal Navy |
02/05/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the River Class |
1907: Armament subsequently upgraded to 4 x 1 x 12pdr QF guns | |
1912: Reclassified as a member of the E Class | |
02/05/1917: Mined & sunk off Le Havre | |
Mine had been laid by U-Boat UC26 |
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