HMS Ardent (1894)
Technical specifications | |
---|---|
Ship type : | Torpedo boat destroyer |
Displacement : | 250 ts standard |
Length: | 56 m |
Width: | 5.80 m |
Draft : | 1.80 m |
Drive : | 2 Thornycroft steam boilers , 2 × 4-cylinder 3-way expansion steam engines 4,500 PS (3,350 kW ) |
Fuel supply: | |
Speed : | 27 kn (50.1 km / h ) |
Range : | |
Crew : | 45 |
Armament: | 1 × 3 inch - gun 5 × 57 mm guns 2 × 18-inch- torpedo tubes with Whitehead- torpedoes |
HMS Ardent (1894) was one of three torpedo boat destroyers and lead ship of the Ardent- class of the British Royal Navy . Her sister ships were HMS Boxer and HMS Bruizer .
The boat was launched on October 16, 1894 at the John Isaac Thornycroft shipyard in Chiswick .
After commissioning, the Ardent was assigned to the Mediterranean fleet as an escort ship for the flagship HMS Ramillies . Their main purpose was to train as many heaters in the fleet as possible to operate the water tube boilers .
In 1911 the Ardent was decommissioned and scrapped.
literature
- Captain TD Manning: The British Destroyer . Putnam and Co, 1961