Velox 1904
|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|
Velox |
P45, D71 | 383 |
Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |
10.4.1901 |
11.2.1902 |
2/1904 |
sunk 25.10.1915 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
400 |
|
Displacement full, t |
445 |
|
Length, m |
65.5 oa 64.0 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
6.00 |
|
Draught, m |
2.74 |
|
No of shafts |
4 (twin screws) |
|
Machinery |
4 Parsons steam turbines / 2 cruising VTE (on two shafts), 4 Yarrow boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
8000 / 200 |
|
Max speed, kts |
30 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 85 |
|
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 |
63 |
Project history:
Parsons began this destroyer, originally to be named Python, as a private
venture, with the hull constructed by Hawthorn Leslie, to experiment with a
mixed power plant. She was purchased 7.6.1902. Turbines intended for high speeds
were not economical in fuel at ordinary cruising speeds. Therefore a separate
pair of TE engines were coupled to the low pressure turbine shafts. The problem
would eventually be solved by fitting separate cruising turbines, as was done to
Velox in 1906. Velox had two propellers on each shaft.
Another turbine boat was ordered a little later, but as she
was basically one of the 'River' class she is listed under that class.
Modernizations: 1906: VTEs were replaced by cruising turbines.
Naval service: Velox was mined off the Nab 25.10.1915.
Velox 1912
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