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Name: MENTOR
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 09/07/1913
Launched: 21/08/1914
Completed: 01/1915
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 468
Dimensions: 1116disp - 1217disp, 265.0 x 26.5 x 10.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
01/1915 British Royal Navy
09/05/1921 Broken up
Comments: Member of the M Class of destroyers
16/08/1915: Torpedoed by German destroyer B98 and lost her bow
Subsequently repaired
09/05/1921: Sold for breaking up
10/1922: Arrived at Hayle for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd


Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair