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Wednesday 13 July 2016

British flotilla leader HMS Shakespeare (1917) in 1923

Thornycroft-design. Built by J.I. Thornycroft&Co., Woolston, England. Launched in 1917, completed in 1919, displacement 1.750 tons, horsepower 40.000 hp, oil-fuelled turbine all geared machinery and an armament of 5-4.7” guns, 1-3” anti aircraft gun, 7-2pd 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.