Name: | LUCIFER |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 26/10/1912 |
Launched: | 29/12/1913 |
Completed: | 08/1914 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 833 |
Dimensions: | 965disp - 1003disp, 260.0 x 27.0 x 9.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, geared, 24500shp |
Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 29.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
08/1914 | British Royal Navy |
01/12/1921 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Laforey Class of destroyers |
Order was subcontracted from Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd at Wallsend | |
26/10/1912: Laid down as ROCKET | |
30/09/1913: Renamed LUCIFER | |
01/12/1921: Sold for breaking up at Dover by Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Co Ltd | |
NOTE: Some sources have this vessel as built by Hawthorn Leslie |
Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 30/12/1913