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Name: LYSANDER launched as ULYSSES
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 08/08/1912
Launched: 18/08/1913
Completed: 09/12/1913
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 939
Dimensions: 965disp - 1010disp, 260.0 x 27.6 x 9.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 24500shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 29.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
09/12/1913 British Royal Navy
09/06/1922 Broken up
Comments: A member of the LAFOREY class
06/06/1913: Launched as ULYSSES
30/09/1913: Renamed LYSANDER
09/06/1922: Sold to J Cashmore for breaking up at Newport


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Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 19/08/1913