HMS Teazer (1895)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Teazer
Builder: J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Launched: 9 February 1895
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 9 July 1912
General characteristics
Class and type: Conflict-class destroyer
Displacement: 320 long tons (325 t)
Length: 200 ft (61 m)
Propulsion: White-Forster boilers, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement: 53 officers and men
Armament:

HMS Teazer was a Conflict-class destroyer built by the White shipyard for the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 February 1895, and sold for scrapping on 9 July 1912.[1]

Service history

In January 1900 it was announced that Teazer would be commissioned as tender to the torpedo school HMS Vernon at Chatham,[2] but she was on 12 February commissioned as tender to the HMS Excellent, gunnery school at Portsmouth.[3] Later the same month, she was damaged by running into a jetty, and relieved from tender duties while receiving repairs.[4] She then served in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla until April 1902, when her crew was transferred to the destroyer Syren, which took her place in the flotilla.[5] Later in 1902, she underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers.[6]

Teazer was sold for scrap on 9 July 1912 for £1820.[7][8]

Notes

  1. ↑ "HMS Teazer". www.pbenyon.plus.com. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36051). London. 29 January 1900. p. 11.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36065). London. 14 February 1900. p. 11.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36074). London. 24 February 1900. p. 8.
  5. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36739). London. 11 April 1902. p. 10.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.
  7. ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 45
  8. ↑ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 35. August 1912. p. 18.

References

  • Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
  • Manning, T.D. (1979) [1961]. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.


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