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Name: STORK
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 10/04/1916
Launched: 15/11/1916
Completed: 01/02/1917
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 485
Dimensions: 975disp - 1036disp, 265.0 x 26.8 x 9.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
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 torpedo
History:
01/02/1917 British Royal Navy
07/10/1927 Broken up
Comments: An Admiralty R Class destroyer
07/10/1927: Broken up at Newport by J Cashmore


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