Nearly disaster with British destroyer HMS Laverock during her trials according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 11 April 1914

An item reported that four shipyard labourers who were aboard of the destroyer Laverock during her trial behaved bravely. When the ship stranded in the Clyde were the men present in the boiler room when the walls torn and the water came in. They managed the shut down to shut down the oil supply preventing a possible explosion.(1)

Note

1. Of the Laforey-class or L-class, preceded by Acasta-class, succeeded by Admiralty M-class, laid down by Yarrow&Company on 24 July 1912, launched on 19 November 1913, completed in October 1914 and sold to be broken up on May 1921.