Albatross 1900
|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|
Albatross |
D32, D44, D02 | 318 |
Thornycroft, Chiswick |
27.11.1896 |
19.7.1898 |
7/1900 |
sold 6.1920 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
430 |
|
Displacement full, t |
490 |
|
Length, m |
69.2 oa 68.6 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
6.49 |
|
Draught, m |
2.77 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 4-cyl VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
7500 |
|
Max speed, kts |
31.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 105 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
3000(10) |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 5 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (4) |
|
Complement |
69 |
Project history:
As part of the 1896/97 programme the Admiralty decided
to order three vessels with the unprecedented contract speed of 33kts. This was
mainly a reaction to the 31kts of the French torpedo boat
Forban on trial in 1895. In fact that was an exceptional result as
none of her immediate sisters reached anything like that speed. In the event,
the requirement for 33kts proved too ambitious. The
vessels built, with exactly the same armament as the 30-knotters, on longer and
more expensive hulls and with more powerful and therefore more expensive
machinery, completely failed to make the desired speed. The first two
both spent years running acceptance trials testing various propeller
shapes and other devices in a vain attempt to reach 33kts, though Thornycroft's
Albatross came quite close.
After their final acceptance it was
realised that all they had proved to be were rather
more expensive 30-knotters, and so they were not kept
apart as a separate class.
Albatross was the most
successful of these specials, but she made a big loss for her builders who spent
a considerable time (from October 1898 to July 1900)
endeavouring to make her meet her intended speed. She
was also delayed by labour trembles, which made tier even more expensive. Unlike
Thornycroft's other destroyers of the time the had
three funnels.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Albatross
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