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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 copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Jarrow Express, Friday, 12/03/1920