Hardy-class destroyer explained
Two
Hardy-class destroyers served with the
Royal Navy. and were both built by Doxford, ordered on 3 November 1893. They were fitted with 8 Yarrow boilers. They displaced 260 tons, were 196 feet long and were armed with one
twelve pounder quick-firing gun mounted forward and five 6-pounder guns, mounted on the broadside and aft, and two torpedo tubes on a revolving mount. They carried 53 officers and men, and served in home waters (although
Hardy was briefly in the Mediterranean in 1900) before being sold off in 1911 and 1912 respectively.
As part of the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of, the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.[1] [2]
See also
Bibliography
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Notes and References
- Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87.
- Manning 1961, p. 39.
