HMS Sentinel

The Ship


Built Vickers, laid down June 1903, completed April 1905.

Size:
Length 360 feet pp 381 feet overall, beam 40 feet, draught 14 feet, displacement 2,880 tons load.

Propulsion:
2 shaft TE engines, 17,000 ihp, 25kts

Trials:
Sentinel 17,500 ihp = 25.25 knots

Armour:
1.5-0.5in decks

Armament:
10 x 12 pounder QF (10 x 1), 8 x 3 pounder QF (8 x 1), 2 x 18in TT

World War 1 Service:

8th Destroyer Flotilla Forth.
1915 Temporarily with 6th Light Cruiser Squadron Humber.
1916 Mediterranean.
1923 sold for scrap.

My Postcards

Postally used 13 May 1905.
Postcard series: Hiorns & Miller

 

Postally used 12 April 1907
Postcard series: Gale & Polden Ltd

 

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