Name: | NONSUCH |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | |
Launched: | 07/12/1915 |
Completed: | 02/1916 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 851 |
Dimensions: | 994disp - 1042disp, 265.0 x 26.5 x 8.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 3 x Steam turbines, 25000shp |
Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 3 x Screws, 34.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 3 x 1 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
02/1916 | British Royal Navy |
09/05/1921 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty M Class of destroyers |
Some sources have launched 08/12/1915 | |
09/05/1921: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Briton Ferry |
Above photo of sister NORTHESK is copyright of the Imperial War Museum