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Hart

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Handy			Fairfield, Govan	7.6.1894	9.3.1895	10.1895	stricken 3.1914, sold 1916
Hart			Fairfield, Govan	7.6.1894	27.3.1895	1.1896	sold 7.1911
Hunter			Fairfield, Govan	7.6.1894	28.12.1895	5.1896	sold 11.1912

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	275
Displacement full, t	310
Length, m	60.1 oa 59.1 pp
Breadth, m	5.94
Draught, m	2.29
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 65
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	55

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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.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Handy and Hart were sold for BU at Hong Kong (Handy  was put on sale list in 1914).