Ref Number: 00135
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Collided with the SS St. Patrick and sank 1918 and sunk South of Culver Cliffs.
Ref Number: 00135
HMS Boxer was designed by Thornycroft and built in 1894, this 280-ton destroyer from the British ‘A’ Class was capable of 27 knots thanks to her 4,000-horsepower, triple-expansion engines and Thornycroft boilers.
She was equipped with one 12-pounder, five 6-pounders, and two two-ton torpedo tubes. After colliding with the SS St.Patrick in rough seas on February 8, 1918, the Boxer sank in the English Channel, South of Culver Cliffs on the Isle of Wight.
It is suggested that there were more people on board than the stated complement of 55 when she went down.
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