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.

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