Name: | WHITEHALL |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 06/1918 |
Launched: | 11/09/1919 |
Completed: | |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1095 |
Dimensions: | 1140disp - 1550disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 9.0ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
(1940: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 12pdr guns; 1 x Hedgehog; 4 x A/S mortars; depthcharges) | |
History: | |
09/07/1924 | British Royal Navy |
25/10/1945 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty modified W Class |
1919: Work suspended after launching | |
1919:Towed to Chatham Dockyard for completion | |
09/07/1924: Completed and Commissioned | |
1940: Rebuilt as a Long Range Escort | |
25/10/1945: Sold to TW Ward Ltd for breaking up at Barrow |
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