Name: | SHARK |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 14/09/1917 |
Launched: | 09/04/1918 |
Completed: | 10/07/1918 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1069 |
Dimensions: | 1000disp - 1220disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes & 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
10/07/1918 | British Royal Navy |
05/02/1931 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty S Class of destroyers |
05/02/1931: Broken up by TW Ward Ltd at Inverkeithing |
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