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Name: TERMAGANT
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 17/12/1914
Launched: 26/08/1915
Completed: 18/03/1916
Builder: R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 478
Dimensions: 1098disp, 300.0 x 28.5 x 9.5(draft)ft
Engines: 3 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 25000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 32.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 5 x 1 x 4.0ins QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
18/03/1916 British Royal Navy
09/05/1921 Broken up
Comments: 06/1914: Order was a subcontract from a Vickers & Armstrong Whitworth syndicate
Ordered for the Government of Turkey & taken over by the Admiralty 11/1914
Initially to be named NARBROUGH by the Admiralty
Became a member of the Talisman Class of destroyers
09/05/1921: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Briton Ferry


Left to Right: MARKSMAN (stern), TALISMAN & TERMAGANT. Photo taken 5th November 1915 at Hawthorn Leslie

Close up of above photo. Photos courtesy of Dave Wilkinson

Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Newcastle Journal, Friday, 05/06/1914