HMS Ferret (1893)

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HMS Ferret
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Ferret
Builder Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid downJuly 1893
Launched9 December 1893
CompletedMarch 1895
FateSunk as target, 1911
General characteristics
Class and type Ferret-classdestroyer
Displacement280 long tons (284 t)
Length199 ft (60.7 m)
Beam19.25 ft (5.9 m)
Draught9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion
Speed27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement42 (later 53)
Armament

HMS Ferret was a Ferret-classdestroyer which served with the Royal Navy from 1893 and was sunk in 1911.

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Construction

Ferret was armed with one 12-pounder and three 6-pounder guns, and three torpedo tubes (two on deck mounts and one fixed bow tube). The bow tube was soon removed, and provision was made for removing the deck tubes and substituting two extra 6-pounder guns. She carried a complement of 42 (later raised to 53). Later in her career she was fitted out for boom breaking as an experiment. Her forebridge, gun and bow tube were removed and the turtle backed forecastle was strengthened for this purpose.

Service history

Ferret was launched on 9 December 1893 and completed in 1895.

She served in the Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become tender to HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship off Plymouth. [1]

She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers during Spring 1902, [2] following which she was in July that year transferred to succeed HMS Lynx as tender to HMS Defiance, torpedo school ship at Devonport. [3]

She took part in the Coronation Review for King Edward VII on 16 August 1902, with Lieutenant Arthur William Tomlinson temporarily in command from 8 August. [4]

She was sunk as a target in 1911.

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References

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36054). London. 1 February 1900. p. 6.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36822). London. 17 July 1902. p. 9.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36831). London. 28 July 1902. p. 7.

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