Radstock 1916

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built

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Name:	RADSTOCK
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	06/09/1915
Launched:	08/06/1916
Completed:	20/09/1916
Builder:	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard:	Wallsend
Yard Number:	1005
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:
20/09/1916	British Royal Navy
29/04/1927	Broken up

Comments:	29/04/1927: Broken up by TW Ward Ltd at Grays, Essex

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