Name: | LYSANDER launched as ULYSSES |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 08/08/1912 |
Launched: | 18/08/1913 |
Completed: | 09/12/1913 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 939 |
Dimensions: | 965disp - 1010disp, 260.0 x 27.6 x 9.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 24500shp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 29.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
09/12/1913 | British Royal Navy |
09/06/1922 | Broken up |
Comments: | A member of the LAFOREY class |
06/06/1913: Launched as ULYSSES | |
30/09/1913: Renamed LYSANDER | |
09/06/1922: Sold to J Cashmore for breaking up at Newport |
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Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 19/08/1913