Name: | WARWICK |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 10/03/1917 |
Launched: | 28/12/1917 |
Completed: | 18/03/1918 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 496 |
Dimensions: | 1100disp - 1457disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2 x 2pdr AA guns; 2 x 3 x 21ins torpedoes; |
(1943: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 12pdr guns; 1 x Hedgehog; 4 x A/S mortars; depthcharges) | |
History: | |
18/03/1918 | British Royal Navy |
20/02/1944 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the W Class |
1943: Converted to a Long Range Escort | |
20/02/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U413 off Trevose Head, Cornwall |
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