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Name: TYRIAN
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 15/10/1941
Launched: 27/07/1942
Completed: 08/04/1943
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1665
Dimensions: 1802disp - 2530disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 14.2(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.75knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 2pdr guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
4 x depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge rails
(1952: 2 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm, 5 x 1 x 40mm guns; 2 x Squid AS mortars)
History:
08/04/1943 British Royal Navy
09/03/1965 Broken up
Comments: 1953: Undertook a Type 16 frigate conversion
09/03/1965: Arrived Troon to be broken up by West of Scotland Shipbreakers Ltd
18/03/1965: Breaking up commenced
08/12/1965: Breaking up completed


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo is copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo is copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair

After conversion. Above photo is courtesy of Tim Webb