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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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