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Friday 24 September 2021

British destroyer HMS Raider (1916) in 1923

Of the Admiralty R-class. Built by Swan, Hunter&Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England 1916, launched in 1916, completed in , displacement 1.065 tons, horsepower 27.000 hp. Oil-fuelled all geared turbine machinery and an armament of 3-4” guns, 6-2pd guns and machine guns and 2x2 -[3,3cm/21"] torpedo tubes.(1)

Note
1. Laid down by Swan Hunter&Wigham Richardson, Wallsend with yard number 1007 in October 1915, launched on 17 July 1916, completed in October 1916, decommissioned on 29 April 1927 and sodl to be scrapped. Of the R-class preceded by Admiralty M-class, succeeded by S-class. 

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.