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Name: MONTROSE
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 04/10/1917
Launched: 10/06/1918
Completed: 14/09/1918
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 506
Dimensions: 1530disp - 2053disp, 320.0 x 31.8 x 9.25(draft) ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 40000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 5 x 1 x 4.7ins, 1 x 3.0ins guns; 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
14/09/1918 British Royal Navy
31/01/1946 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Scott Class of destroyer leaders
31/01/1946: Sold for breaking up at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Ltd


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