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Name: TENEDOS
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 06/12/1917
Launched: 21/10/1918
Completed: 11/06/1919
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 510
Dimensions: 1000disp - 1220disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft) ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, SR geared, 27000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle
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 torpedoes
History:
11/06/1919 British Royal Navy
05/04/1942 Sank
Comments: Member of the S Class of destroyers
05/04/1942: Bombed & sunk by Japanese aircraft at Colombo Harbour. 33 crew died


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