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Fairfield 27-knotters, 1893-94 follow-up order destroyers (1895-1896)

Hunter 1896

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Handy     Fairfield, Govan 7.6.1894 9.3.1895 10.1895 stricken 3.1914, sold 1916
Hart     Fairfield, Govan 7.6.1894 27.3.1895 1.1896 sold 7.1911
Hunter     Fairfield, Govan 7.6.1894 28.12.1895 5.1896 sold 11.1912

 

Displacement normal, t

275

Displacement full, t

310

Length, m

60.1 oa 59.1 pp

Breadth, m

5.94

Draught, m

2.29

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 4-cyl VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 65

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

55

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.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Handy and Hart were sold for BU at Hong Kong (Handy  was put on sale list in 1914).

Hart

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