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Name: VERULAM
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 08/02/1917
Launched: 03/10/1917
Completed: 12/12/1917
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 495
Dimensions: 1090disp - 1480disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, SR geared, 27000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 12pdr, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 3 x 21ins torpedoes
History:
12/12/1917 British Royal Navy
04/09/1919 Sank
Comments: Member of the Admiralty V/W Class
04/09/1919: Sank in a British minefield in the Gulf of Finland


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum