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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GRENVILLE |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1936 |
15/08/1935 |
01/07/1936 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Destroyer
| Steel Steam Turbine 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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1651 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 1641 disp on trial |
330 ft 0 in LOA |
34 ft 5 in |
19 ft 8 in mld |
9 ft 2 in12 ft 9in |
| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 2 shaft Parsons S.R. Geared turbines, 3 Yarrow 3-drum watertube boilers 300 lbs/sq.in., oil, 38,000shp giving 36.5 knots on trial. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Admiralty, London |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Destroyer Leader, G, H, and I Class - H03
Battle Honour: ATLANTIC 1939
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| Remarks |
Standard Displacement 1485 tons on 8 ft 9 in draught.
Full Load Displacement 2033 tons on 12 ft 6 in draught. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1940 |
Mined 19/01/1940 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Sunk by a mine in the Thames Estuary, 19/1/1/940. Seventy seven officers and crew lost their life in the sinking |
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Grenville 1936
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Grenville 1937
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