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