Name: | MARY ROSE |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 14/11/1914 |
Launched: | 08/10/1915 |
Completed: | 05/03/1916 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 981 |
Dimensions: | 994disp - 1042disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 8.7(draft)ft |
Engines: | 3 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 25000shp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 3 x Screws, 34.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
05/03/1916 | British Royal Navy |
17/10/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty M Class |
17/10/1917: Sunk by gunfire from German cruisers BREMSE & BRUMMER | |
In a position 70miles east of Lerwick, whilst providing convoy escort |
Above photo copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Profile & Decks plans courtesy of Dr Dan Saranga
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