Fervent 1900
Fervent 1908
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Fervent | N17, D97, D39 | Hanna Donald & Wilson, Paisley | 27.3.1894 | 20.3.1895 | 6.1900 | sold 4.1920 | |
| Zephyr | N86, D4A, D98 | Hanna Donald & Wilson, Paisley | 23.4.1894 | 10.5.1895 | 7.1901 | sold 2.1920 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
275 |
|
Displacement full, t |
320 |
|
Length, m |
62.4 oa 61.0 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
5.79 |
|
Draught, m |
2.21 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 3-cyl VTE, 2 locomotive boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
4000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
26 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 62 |
| 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 |
48 |
Project history: Before the Havock had
completed it was decided to order another six destroyers from Thornycroft and
Yarrow. Another nine were ordered from other builders making up, a few months
later, the 1893/94 Programme. Apart from a slight increase in size the main
difference was that the gun armament was increased by 2 57mm guns. The first six
(the Thornycroft and Yarrow boats) had a bow tube fitted, but it was found to
throw up clouds of spray in anything except a flat calm, had a bad effect on
seakeeping and was soon removed.
This pair were the only destroyers built with one funnel
until the Italians built some in the 1930s. They were also quite the most
unsuccessful of the 27-knotters, and their complete failure to meet the contract
speed finally drove their builder out of business. They had to be reboilered,
and even then could only make26kts. The reboilering meant that they eventually
entered service as four funnelled ships.
Modernizations: 1908, both: boilers were replaced by 4 Reed, 3800hp, 27kts, single funnel was replaced by four.
1916, both: + 2 DCR
Naval service: No significant events.
Fervent as built
Fervent after reboilering
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