HMS Tormentor (1917)

HMS Tormentor was an R-class destroyer built by Alexander Stephen & Sons in Glasgow, Scotland.^[1]^[2] The ship is a notable wreck off Old Castle Head, near Manorbier in southern Wales.^[3]^[1]

The ship was ordered in March 1916.^[2]

The ship was launched on 22 May 1917.^[2] She saw service during the First World War.^[3]^[1] The ship engines were from William Beardmore and Company.^[4]

The ship was sold for breaking up on 19 November 1929, but was wrecked off South Wales while under tow en route to the breakers yard on 13 December 1929.^[3] Parts of the wreck have been recovered, including a brass name plate and speaking tube.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c Randall, Ian (1997). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. Conway Maritime Press Ltd. p. 81. ISBN 978-0851772455.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "HMS Tormentor". Coflein. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^ Johnston, Ian (2008). Beardmore Built. The Rise and Fall of a Clydeside Shipyard. Clydebank District Museum and Libraries. p. 166.

R-class destroyers

Royal Navy

Admiralty R class	Romola Sarpedon Radstock Raider Sable Rowena Rocket Restless Setter Rob Roy Sorceress Starfish Rigorous Salmon / Sable Redoubt Simoom Stork Sylph Redgauntlet Recruit Satyr Thruster Skate Sturgeon Tempest Skilful Torrid Sharpshooter Thisbe Springbok Tarpon Sceptre Tetrarch Telemachus Tenacious Tormentor Tancred Tornado Torrent
Modified Admiralty R class	Trenchant Tristram Undine Ulysses Tower Tirade Urchin Umpire Ursa Ursula Ulster
Thornycroft R class	Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow R class or Yarrow Later M class	Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent Tyrant Ulleswater