| Name: | WATERHEN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 07/1917 |
| Launched: | 26/03/1918 |
| Completed: | 17/04/1918 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 880 |
| Dimensions: | 1100disp - 1457disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 11/11/1918 | British Royal Navy |
| 1933 | Royal Australian Navy |
| 30/06/1941 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty W Class of destroyers |
| 1933: Transferred to the Royal Australian Navy | |
| 30/12/1940: Collided with & sank anti-submarine trawler BANDALERO | |
| 29/06/1941: Damaged & disabled by Axis bombing 90 miles from Tobruk | |
| 30/06/1941: Sank whilst under tow by HMS DEFENDER |
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