Name: | WILD SWAN |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 07/1918 |
Launched: | 17/05/1919 |
Completed: | 14/11/1919 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1105 |
Dimensions: | 1120disp - 1508disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 30000shp |
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 |
History: | |
14/11/1919 | British Royal Navy |
17/06/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the Admiralty Modified W Class of destroyers |
17/06/1942: Sunk by bombs from German aircraft south of Bantry Bay |
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