Charger 1896
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Charger | 991 | Yarrow, Poplar | 11.1893 | 15.5.1894 | 2.1896 | sold 5.1912 | |
| Hasty | 993 | Yarrow, Poplar | 12.1893 | 16.6.1894 | 5.1896 | sold 7.1912 | |
| Dasher | 992 | Yarrow, Poplar | 12.1893 | 28.11.1894 | 3.1896 | sold 5.1912 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
255 |
|
Displacement full, t |
295 |
|
Length, m |
59.4 oa 58.1 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
5.64 |
|
Draught, m |
2.21 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 3-cyl VTE, 2 locomotive fire-tube boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
3800 |
|
Max speed, kts |
26 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 57 |
| 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 |
|
Complement |
53 |
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.
These ships were slightly enlarged versions of the Hornet and, like most
Yarrow-built vessels, both fast and lightly built. Overall length varied
slightly.
Modernizations: 1899-1900, all: re-boilered with 4 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Naval service: No significant events.
Hasty
Dasher after reboilering
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