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Name: TINTAGEL
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 12/1917
Launched: 09/08/1918
Completed: 12/1918
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1083
Dimensions: 1000disp - 1220disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr QF, 1 x 8mm guns;
2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes & 2 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
12/1918 British Royal Navy
16/02/1932 Broken up
Comments: A member of the S class also known as Modified Trenchant class
Allocated pennant number G51, changed to H89 after 1922
16/02/1932: Sold for breaking up to Sidney Castle at Plymouth


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