| Name: | BLANCHE |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 31/07/1929 |
| Launched: | 29/05/1930 |
| Completed: | 14/02/1931 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 565 |
| Dimensions: | 1358disp - 1767disp, 312.0 x 32.3 x 8.6(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, 35.7knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns, 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 14/02/1931 | British Royal Navy |
| 13/11/1939 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the B Class of destroyers |
| 13/11/1939: Mined and sunk in the Thames estuary |
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