Name: | VIKING |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 11/06/1908 |
Launched: | 14/09/1909 |
Completed: | 30/06/1910 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 804 |
Dimensions: | 1110disp - 1230disp, 280.0 x 27.5 x 8.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 12500hp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 33.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 1 x 4.0ins guns, 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
30/06/1910 | British Royal Navy |
12/12/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Tribal Class of destroyers |
The only 6 funnelled vessel in the Royal Navy | |
1913: Reclassified as a B Class destroyer | |
12/12/1919: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Briton Ferry |
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