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 |
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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