| Name: | THRACIAN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 10/01/1918 |
| Launched: | 05/03/1920 |
| Completed: | 21/04/1920 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 512 |
| 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 Ltd, 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: | |
| 21/04/1920 | British Royal Navy |
| 1942 | Government of Japan |
| 04/09/1945 | British Royal Navy |
| 1947 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the S Class of destroyers |
| 1920: Completed by HMDY at Sheerness | |
| 24/12/1941: Beached at Hong Kong after being bombed by Japanese aircraft | |
| 09/1942: Salvaged & commissioned as Japanese patrol boat No 101 | |
| 08/1943: Assigned to the torpedo warfare school | |
| 03/1944: Used as a training ship & test bed for new weapons | |
| 04/09/1945: Returned to the Royal Navy | |
| 02/1946: Sold at Hong Kong for breaking up | |
| 1947: Broken up |
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Jarrow Express, Friday, 12/03/1920