HEAD WRIGHTSON, THORNABY-ON-TEES
| Name | X.5 |
| Type | Admiralty 'X' lighter |
| Yard Number | |
| Launched | |
| Completed | 1915 |
| Off. Number | |
| Engine builder | Bolinder, Sweden |
| Engine type | Diesel |
| GRT | |
| Length (feet) | 105.6 |
| Beam (feet) | 21 |
| First owner | The Admiralty (Royal Navy) |
| History | Later named K.13 |
| Fate | 24/01/1918 Sunk by a bomb placed by submarine UB.34 when 8 miles NNE of Whitby on passage Chatham for Rosyth in tow by the tug DESIRE. X.110 was lost in the same incident. |
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