| Name: | IMOGEN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 18/01/1936 |
| Launched: | 30/10/1936 |
| Completed: | 02/06/1937 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 604 |
| Dimensions: | 1420disp - 1892disp, 312.0 x 33.0 x 8.8(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 34000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns; 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 02/06/1937 | British Royal Navy |
| 16/07/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the I Class of destroyers; Cost £256,917 |
| 16/07/1940: Collided with HMS GLASGOW in thick fog off Duncansby Head. | |
| She caught fire & sank. 19 crew killed. |
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