HMS Crusader (1909)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Crusader.

History
HMS Crusader
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 & 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)

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 Thomas William Ward (industrialist) 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.

Tribal-class (F-class) destroyers

Afridi Amazon Cossack Crusader Ghurka Maori Mohawk Nubian Saracen Tartar Viking Zubian Zulu

Preceded by: River class Followed by: Beagle class List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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