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Laird 27-knots destroyers, 1893 - 94 follow up order (BANSHEE) (3, 1895)


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Dragon

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Banshee   598 Laird, Birkenhead 3.1894 17.11.1894 7.1895 sold 4.1912
Contest   599 Laird, Birkenhead 3.1894 1.12.1894 7.1895 sold 7.1911
Dragon   600 Laird, Birkenhead 3.1894 15.12.1894 6.1895 sold 7.1912


Technical data


Displacement normal, t290
Displacement full, t

345

Length, m

64.9 oa 63.4 pp

Breadth, m

5.87

Draught, m

2.93

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 3-cyl VTE, 4 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

4400

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

coal 72

Endurance, nm(kts)3000(10)
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

58



Standard scale images


<i>Banshee</i> 1895
Banshee 1895


Graphics


<i> Dragon </i>
Dragon
<i> Contest</i>
Contest


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 soon removed. These vessels was four funneled, being slightly improved versions of the earlier Laird boats.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.