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Yarrow 26-knots destroyers, 1892 order (HAVOCK) (2, 1894)


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Havock 1894

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Havock   968 Yarrow, Poplar 7.1892 12.8.1893 1.1894 despatch vessel 1905, sold 5.1912
Hornet   969 Yarrow, Poplar 7.1892 23.12.1893 7.1894 despatch vessel 1905, sold 10.1909


Technical data


Displacement normal, t240
Displacement full, t

275

Length, m

56.4 oa 54.9 pp

Breadth, m

5.67

Draught, m

2.21

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Havock: 2 4-cyl VTE, 2 locomotive fire-tube boilers

Hornet: 2 4-cyl VTE, 8 Yarrow water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

3700 (Hornet) 3500 (Havock)

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

coal 47

Endurance, nm(kts)1195(11)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 3 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 450 TT (bow aw), 2 x 1 - 450 TT (6 at all)

Complement

46



Standard scale images


<i>Havock</i> 1894
Havock 1894
<i>Hornet </i>1894
Hornet 1894


Graphics


<i>Havock </i> plan
Havock plan
<i>Havock </i>1894
Havock 1894
<i>Havock </i> after re-boilered
Havock after re-boilered
<i>Hornet </i> 
Hornet  


Project history

The first 5 destroyers were 26-knotters with an armament of 3-450mm TT (one fixed bow tube, two single deck tubes), 1 76mm and 3 57mm. This was the armament carried, but provision was made for landing the two deck tubes and replacing them by an extra 2 57mm if they were to be used entirely for anti-torpedo boat work. All these destroyers had twin shafts and triple expansion engines, though the Thornycroft boats had a special four cylinder triple expansion design. Havock was the only destroyer with locomotive boilers, and with this well-tried installation she could therefore be completed before the others, the first destroyer. She had only two funnels very close together whilst Hornet with water-tube boilers had four.

Modernizations

1900, Havock: was re-boilered with 3 Yarrow water-tube boilers (3800hp, 26kts); - 1 - 450 TT (without spare torpedoes)

1905: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Naval service

No significant events.

plan

after re-boilered