Sturgeon-class destroyer
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The Sturgeon-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy from 1894; three were built by the Vickers yard and differed from other similar ships in having their mast stepped before the first funnel. They had Blechynden boilers which gave them Script error: No such module "convert". and Script error: No such module "convert".. They were armed with one twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 53 officers and men.
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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All three ships had been sold for scrapping before 1913 when the Admiralty re-classed the surviving 27-knotter destroyers as A Class destroyers.[11]
See also
Ships
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References
Notes
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- ↑ a b c 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.
- ↑ Brassey 1902, p. 274.
- ↑ a b Friedman 2009, p. 291.
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