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Name: NESSUS
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 04/03/1915
Launched: 24/08/1915
Completed: 12/11/1915
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 993
Dimensions: 994disp - 1042disp, 265.0 x 26.7 x 8.7(draft)ft
Engines: 3 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 25000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
12/11/1915 British Royal Navy
08/9/1918 Sank
Comments: Member of the Admiralty M Class of destroyers
08/9/1918: Damaged in collision with cruiser AMPHITRITE
Subsequently sank 30 miles W of Wick, whilst being towed


Above image of Nessus courtesy of Photoship