HMS Decoy (1894)

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The HMS Decoy
The HMS Decoy
Overview
Type destroyer
units 2
Shipyard

John I. Thornycroft & Co. , Chiswick ,

Keel laying 1892
Launch February 7, 1894
Commissioning June 1895
Whereabouts Sunk after a collision on August 13, 1904, 1 dead
Technical specifications
displacement

260 tn
290 tn max.

length

56.4 m (185 ft)

width

5.9 m (19.5 ft)

Draft

2.1 m (7 ft)

crew

46-53 men

drive

3 Thornycroft boiler
2 4-cylinder triple expansion machines ,
4200  ihp (PSi) , 2 shafts

speed

27  kn

Armament

1 × 76 mm / L40-12pdr-12 cwt cannon
3 × 57 mm / L40-6pdr cannons
3 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
(bow tube, twin deck tubes)

Boats of the class

Daring , Decoy

procured at the same time

Havock / Hornet (Yarrow),
Ferret / Lynx (Laird)

HMS Decoy (1894) was one of two Daring-class torpedo boat destroyers of the British Royal Navy and was one of the first six destroyers in the British Navy.

The ship was launched on February 7, 1894 as the last boat of the “26-knotter” ordered in 1892 at the John Isaac Thornycroft shipyard in Chiswick .

During their period of use, the torpedo tube installed in the bow proved to be unusable in practice, since the ship ran the risk of overtaking its own torpedo when attacked at high speed. In addition, the bulky tube narrowed the crew quarters and made the foredeck vulnerable to flooding. Based on this experience, the bow tube on the sister ship HMS Daring was later removed.

The Decoy was lost off the Isles of Scilly on August 13, 1904 when she collided with HMS '' Arun '' during a night exercise . One crew member died, the other 40 were rescued by HMS Arun and HMS Sturgeon .

The court-martial investigation took place on board the ship of the line HMS Conqueror . In the first hearing on August 22 the full blame the commander was Arun , Commander Reginald Tyrwhitt , who later became commander of the Harwich Force in the First World War , assigned. In the appeal hearing on August 30, the charge of breach of duty was dropped, but the charge of endangering both ships was confirmed.

literature

  • Maurice Cocker: Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981 , Ian Allen 1983, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
  • David Lyon: The First Destroyers . (1996), ISBN 1-84067-364-8 .
  • Captain TD Manning: The British Destroyer . Putnam and Co, 1961
  • Antony Preston: Destroyers , Hamlyn, ISBN 0-600-32955-0

Web links

Commons : The Daring Class of 1893  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files