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Name: GREYHOUND
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 25/07/1899
Launched: 06/10/1900
Completed: 22/08/1901
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 377
Dimensions: 385disp - 430disp, 210.0 x 21.1 x 13.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (19, 29 & 46 x 18ins), 6300shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 30.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 12pdr, 5 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedo tubes
History:
22/08/1901 British Royal Navy
10/06/1919 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Greyhound Class. Cost £61,066
1912: Reclassified as a member of the C Class
10/06/1919: Sold for breaking up by Clarkson at Whitby


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Archive and Museums

Above photo showing GREYHOUND off Portland, is courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 08/10/1900

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 10/09/1901