Stalwart 1918

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	STALWART
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:
Launched:	19/10/1918
Completed:	12/1918
Builder:	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard:	Wallsend
Yard Number:	1087
Dimensions:	1075disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 10.8(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
1920	Transferred to the Royal Australian Navy
04/06/1937	Broken up

Comments:	Member of the Admiralty S Class of destroyers
	04/06/1937: Sold for breaking up to Penguins Ltd who stripped the hull
	22/07/1939: The bare hull was sunk in Broken Bay