| Name: | TORRID |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 19/07/1916 |
| Launched: | 10/02/1917 |
| Completed: | 05/05/1917 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1025 |
| 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: | |
| 05/1917 | British Royal Navy |
| 16/03/1937 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 27/01/1937: Handed over to TW Ward Ltd as part of a trade for MAJESTIC |
| 16/03/1937: Wrecked at Trefusis Point, Cornwall whilst in tow to the breakers at Hayle | |
| 1940: Broken up in situ |
Above photo copyright of the Imperial War Museum
TORRID aground at Trefusis Point. Photo courtesy of Photoship