Name: | ETTRICK |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 09/07/1902 |
Launched: | 28/02/1903 |
Completed: | 03/11/1903 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 768 |
Dimensions: | 550disp - 625disp, 221.0 x 23.5 x 7.1(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl, 6200hp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 26.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 12pdr QF gun, 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns; 2 x 18ins torpedoes |
History: | |
03/11/1903 | British Royal Navy |
27/05/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the River Class of destroyers |
1913: Redesignated as a member of the E Class | |
07/07/1917: Lost her bows when torpedoed by U-Boat UC-61 when | |
15 miles SxW of Beachy Head, with the loss of 49 officers & men | |
Subsequently towed to port, but not repaired and hulked | |
27/05/1919: Sold for breaking up by James Dredging Co |
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