HMS Sturgeon (1894)
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HMS Sturgeon was the lead ship of the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s which served with the Royal Navy. Built by Vickers, she was launched in 1894 and sold in 1910.
Construction and design
On 8 November 1893, the British Admiralty placed an order with the Naval Construction and Armament Company of Barrow-in-Furness (later to become part of Vickers) for three "Twenty-Seven Knotter" destroyers as part of the 1893–1894 construction programme for the Royal Navy,[1] with in total, 36 destroyers being ordered from various shipbuilders for this programme.[2]
The Admiralty only laid down a series of broad requirements for the destroyers, leaving detailed design to the ships' builders. The requirements included a trial speed of Script error: No such module "convert"., a "turtleback" forecastle and a standard armament of a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (Script error: No such module "convert". calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.[3][4][5]
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Service
Sturgeon served in home waters for the whole of her career.[1] She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 26 June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.[12] From 1899 she served in the Medway Instructional Flotilla under Commander Murray MacGregor Lockhart, but in March 1900 she was replaced by HMS Cynthia to which Commander Lockhart also transferred.[13] She left this for other service in late 1900. The following year she again took up with the Medway instructional flotilla, replacing Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[14] She had a refit in early 1902.[15] In May 1902 she received the officers and men from the destroyer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and was again commissioned at Chatham on 8 May by Lieutenant John Maxwell D. E. Warren for service with the Flotilla.[16][17] She took part in the Spithead fleet review held on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[18] and later the same month was placed in dockyard hands at Sheerness for her boiler to be re-tubed.[19]
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d Lyon 2001, p. 69.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 19.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 20.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.
- ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 40.
- ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 50.
- ↑ Manning 1961, p. 38.
- ↑ The Engineer 11 October 1895, p. 365.
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- ↑ Brassey 1902, p. 274.
- ↑ a b Friedman 2009, p. 291.
- ↑ Brassey 1898, pp. 12–13
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