Name: | SPORTIVE |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 02/1918 |
Launched: | 23/10/1918 |
Completed: | 04/1919 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1085 |
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 guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins & 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
04/1919 | British Royal Navy |
25/09/1936 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty S Class of destroyers |
25/09/1936: Arrived at Inverkeithing for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd | |
Sold as part payment for MAJESTIC which was required by the Admiralty |
Above photo is courtesy of Ian Rae