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Name: TURBULENT
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 14/11/1917
Launched: 29/05/1919
Completed: 10/10/1919
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 509
Dimensions: 1000disp - 1220disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 9.8(draft) ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, SR geared, 27000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
10/10/1919 British Royal Navy
25/08/1936 Broken up
Comments: Member of the S Class of destroyers
25/08/1936: Sold for breaking up at Inverkeithing by TW Ward Ltd
Sold in part exchange for the RMS MAJESTIC


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