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VELOX turbine destroyer (1, 1904)


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Velox 1912

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Velox

P45, D71 383

Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn

10.4.1901

11.2.1902

2/1904

sunk 25.10.1915



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

400

Displacement full, t445
Length, m

65.5 oa 64.0 pp

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

2.74

No of shafts

4 (twin screws)

Machinery

4 Parsons steam turbines / 2 cruising VTE (on two shafts), 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

8000 / 200

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

coal 85

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

63



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<i>Velox </i> 1912
Velox 1912


Project history

Parsons began this destroyer, originally to be named Python, as a private venture, with the hull constructed by Hawthorn Leslie, to experiment with a mixed power plant. She was purchased 7.6.1902. Turbines intended for high speeds were not economical in fuel at ordinary cruising speeds. Therefore a separate pair of TE engines were coupled to the low pressure turbine shafts. The problem would eventually be solved by fitting separate cruising turbines, as was done to Velox in 1906. Velox had two propellers on each shaft.     Another turbine boat was ordered a little later, but as she was basically one of the 'River' class she is listed under that class.

Modernizations

1906: VTEs were replaced by cruising turbines.

Naval service

Velox was mined off the Nab 25.10.1915.