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Friday 2 December 2016

British destroyer HMS Wessex (1918) in 1923

V-class. Launched at Hawthorn, Leslie&Co., Hebburn in 1918, completed in 1918, displacement 1.300 tons, horsepower 27.000 hp oil-fuelled geared turbine machinery and an armament of 4-4” guns, 6-2pd guns and machineguns and 2x3 torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at The Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.