Name: | STAR |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 23/03/1896 |
Launched: | 11/08/1896 |
Completed: | 24/03/1897 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 710 |
Dimensions: | 360disp - 440disp, 215.0 x 20.5 x 7.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl, 6200ihp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 12pdr, 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
24/03/1897 | British Royal Navy |
10/06/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Palmers' Star Class |
1913: Redesignated as a C Class destroyer | |
10/06/1919: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward at New Holland |
Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums
Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums
Marine Engineer, September, 1897