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