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Ardent

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ardent		297	Thornycroft, Chiswick	12/1893	16/10/1894	4/1895	sold 10/1911
Boxer	H4C, D16	298	Thornycroft, Chiswick	3/1894	28/11/1894	6/1895	collision 8/2/1918
Bruizer		299	Thornycroft, Chiswick	4/1894	27/2/1895	6/1895	sold 5/1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	265
Displacement full, t	295
Length, m	61.5 oa 58.1 pp
Breadth, m	5.79
Draught, m	2.16
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	Ardent, Bruizer: 4500 Boxer: 4200
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 57
Endurance, nm(kts)	865(11)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 5 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (4)
Complement	53

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Ship project history

Before the Havock had completed it was decided to order another six destroyers from Thornycroft and Yarrow. Another nine were ordered from other builders making up, a few months later, the 1893/94 Programme. Apart from a slight increase in size the main difference was that the gun armament was increased by 2 57mm guns. The first six (the Thornycroft and Yarrow boats) had a bow tube fitted, but it was found to throw up clouds of spray in anything except a flat calm, had a bad effect on seakeeping and was removed during the completion.

Ardent reached 29.182 knots on trials held on 9 November 1894 at the measuring mile at Maplin Sound. The boilers generated steam at a pressure of 210 pounds per square inch, and the shafts reached 407 revolutions per minute. Boxer conducted tests on 25 January 1895, receiving 29.076 per measuring mile and 29.175 knots during a three-hour test. Bruiser conducted the test on 29 March 1895, reaching 27.809 knots of the mile and 27.97 knots of the three-hour test. The Ardent class were larger versions of the Daring, also with two funnels.

Naval service

Boxer 8/2/1918 collided with s/s St. Patrick in English Channel and sunk.