HMS Shark (1894)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Shark
Launched: 1894
Fate: Sold, 1911
General characteristics
Class and type: Rocket-class destroyer
Displacement: 280 long tons (284 t)
Length: 200 ft (61 m)
Propulsion: Normand boilers, 4,100 hp (3,057 kW)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement: 53
Armament:

HMS Shark was a Rocket-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Clydebank in 1894, served in home waters and was sold in 1911.

Service history

Shark served in the Channel Squadron in home waters throughout her career.

She served in the Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become tender to the HMS Cambridge, gunnery school ship off Plymouth.[1] She took part in the Coronation Review for King Edward VII on 16 August 1902, with lieutenant A. S. Susmann temporarily in command from 8 August.[2] The following month she was replaced as tender on 11 September and paid off into the D Division of the Devonport Fleet Reserve.[3]

Shark was sold for scrap at Devonport for £1575 on 11 July 1911.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36054). London. 1 February 1900. p. 6.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36831). London. 28 July 1902. p. 7.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36869). London. 10 September 1902. p. 8.
  4. ↑ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 34. August 1911. p. 14.
  • Manning, Captain T.D. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.



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