HMS Hasty (1894)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Hasty
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down: December 1893
Launched: 16 June 1894
Completed: May 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:
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:

HMS Hasty was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1894, served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.[1]

Service history

Hasty took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII.[2]

Notes

  1. British Navy Ship Archive Archived 12 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "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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