HMS Faulknor. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sistership Kempenfelt Marksman-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Faulknor-class destroyer leaders preceded by Medea-class destroyers succeeded by Marksman-class. Originally designed by J. Samuel White, Cowes, Wight as the Almirante Lynch-class destroyers for Chile of which the Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell were delivered but the other four taken over by and completed for the British Royal Navy. Launched by J. Samuel White, Cowes, Wight on 5 March 1915, completed in 1915 and heavily damaged by gunfire of the German battleships SMS Westfalen and Nassau sunk in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.
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