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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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