HMS Ferret (1893)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ferret.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Ferret
Builder:	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down:	July 1893
Launched:	9 December 1893
Completed:	March 1895
Fate:	Sunk as target, 1911
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ferret-class destroyer
Displacement:	280 long tons (284 t)
Length:	199 ft (60.7 m)
Beam:	19.25 ft (5.9 m)
Draught:	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 4,475 hp (3,337 kW)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Ferret was a Ferret-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy from 1893 and was sunk in 1911.

Construction

Ferret was armed with one 12-pounder gun and two bow torpedo tubes. Later in her career she was fitted out for boom breaking as an experiment. Her forebridge, gun and bow tube were removed and the turtle backed forecastle was strengthened for this purpose.

Service history

Ferret was launched in 1893 and completed in 1895.

She served in the Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become tender to HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship off Plymouth.^[1]

She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers during Spring 1902,^[2] following which she was in July that year transferred to succeed the HMS Lynx as tender to the HMS Defiance, torpedo school ship at Devonport.^[3]

She was sunk as a target in 1911.

References

↑ "Navel & Military intelligence". The Times (36054). London. 1 February 1900. p. 6.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36822). London. 17 July 1902. p. 9.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
Lyon, David (1996). The First Destroyers. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.
Captain T.D. Manning, (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.

Ferret-class destroyer

Ferret Lynx

Preceded by: Havock class Followed by: Ardent class List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy

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