Name: | WEAR |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 07/03/1904 |
Launched: | 21/01/1905 |
Completed: | 14/06/1905 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 778 |
Dimensions: | 550disp - 625disp, 222.0 x 23.5 x 7.1(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl, 6200hp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 26.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 12pdr QF, 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns, 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
14/06/1905 | British Royal Navy |
04/11/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the River Class of Destroyers |
1913: Redesignated as a member of the E Class | |
04/11/1919: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd at Grays, Essex |
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