Name: | POITIERS also seen as POICTIERS |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 09/02/1945 |
Launched: | 04/01/1946 |
Completed: | n/a |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 669 |
Dimensions: | 2480disp, 379.0 x 40.5 x 12.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Geared steam turbines, Parsons type, 50000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.75knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 2 x 4.5ins guns, 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 2 x Squid anti-submarine mortars |
History: | |
1946 | British Royal Navy |
04/1946 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Battle Class |
23/10/1945: Contract cancelled | |
04/01/1946: Launched to clear the slipway | |
29/04/1946: Left the Tyne to be broken up at Sunderland |