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Wednesday 4 January 2017

British destroyer HMS Archer delivered by shipyard according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1912-1913 no. 4

An item referred to the German magazine Schiffbau reporting that the shipyard Yarrow delivered the destroyer HMS Archer to the Royal British Navy. She was fitted out with the latest type of a Yarrow-boiler with superheaters.(1)

Note
1. Of the Archeron-class, preceded by the Acorn-class and succeeded by the Acasta-class. Launched at Yarrow&Company, Scotstoun, Scotland with yard number 1296 on 21 October 1911 and sold in 1921.