HMS Crusader (1909)

HMS Crusader
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Crusader
Builder:	J S White
Launched:	20 March 1909
Honours and awards:	Belgian Coast, 1914-16
Fate:	Sold for Scrap 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tribal-class destroyer
Length:	255 ft (78 m)
Beam:	25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draught:	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Speed:	33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Armament:	2 × 4 in (102 mm) 2 × single 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Crusader was a Tribal class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1909. During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla. Following the War she was sold for scrap to Thos W Ward on 30 June 1920 for scrapping at Preston.

References

• HMS Crusader, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
• HMS Crusader Battle Honours

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.