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Name: RAIDER
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 25/10/1915
Launched: 17/07/1916
Completed: 01/11/1916
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1007
Dimensions: 975disp - 1035disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
10/1916 British Royal Navy
24/09/1927 Broken up
Comments: 24/09/1927: Sold for breaking up to G Cohen


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