HMS Charger (1894)
Plans for the Charger class | |
History | |
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Name: | HMS Charger |
Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London |
Laid down: | November 1893 |
Launched: | 15 September 1894 |
Completed: | February 1896 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1912 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Charger-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 255 long tons (259 t) |
Length: | 195 ft (59 m) |
Beam: | 18.5 ft (5.6 m) |
Draught: | 7.25 ft (2.2 m) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Armament: |
HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894,[1] served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.
Service history
Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902,[2] for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla.[3] Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.[4] She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII.[5]
Notes
- ↑ The Times (London), Monday, 17 September 1894, p.8
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36720). London. 20 March 1902. p. 10.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36713). London. 12 March 1902. p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36747). London. 21 April 1902. p. 6.
- ↑ "Naval Review at Spithead". The Times (36847). London. 15 August 1902. p. 5.
References
- Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.
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