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Name: ROEBUCK
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 21/09/1899
Launched: 04/01/1901
Completed: 10/1901
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 379
Dimensions: 355 - 415disp, 210.0 x 21.1 x 13.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (19, 29 & 46 x 18ins), 6100shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 30.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 12pdr, 5 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedo tubes
History:
10/1901 British Royal Navy
1921 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Greyhound Class
1912: Reclassified as a member of the C Class
1921: Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard


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