Name: | TORRENT |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 16/05/1916 |
Launched: | 26/11/1916 |
Completed: | 27/02/1917 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1023 |
Dimensions: | 975disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis 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 guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
27/02/1917 | British Royal Navy |
23/12/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/12/1917: Mined & sunk off the Maas Light Vessel with the loss of 98 crew |
The mines were laid by German destroyers on the 10-11/12/1917 |
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