| Name: | LAERTES launched as SARPEDON |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 06/07/1912 |
| Launched: | 06/06/1913 |
| Completed: | 21/10/1913 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 937 |
| Dimensions: | 980disp - 1026disp, 260.0 x 27.0 x 8.6(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 24,500shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 31.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 1 x 1.5pdr AA guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 21/10/1913 | British Royal Navy |
| 01/12/1921 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the LAFOREY class of destroyers |
| 06/06/1913: Launched as SARPEDON | |
| 30/09/1913: Renamed LAERTES | |
| 24/08/1914: Damaged and immobilised at the Battle of Heligoland Bight | |
| Towed back to the UK for repair | |
| 25/04/1916: Damaged by shellfire during German bombardment of Yarmouth & Lowestoft | |
| 01/12/1921: Sold for breaking up at Dover by Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Co Ltd | |
| 08/03/1922: Arrived at the breakers after stranding near Newhaven during the tow |
Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum, Stephen Cribb collection
Jarrow Express, Friday, 13/06/1913