HMS Electra (1895)

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Career

Ordered:	1895 Naval Programme
Laid down:	18 October 1895
Launched:	14 July 1896
Commissioned:	July 1900
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1920
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	380 tons standard 425 tons full load
Length:	214 ft (65.2 m) between perpendiculars 210 ft (64 m) overall
Beam:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draught:	8 ft 3 in (2.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 Triple expansion engines 2 shafts, 5800 ihp
Speed:	30 knots
Range:
Complement:	63
Armament:	1 x 12-pdr 5 x 6-pdr (5x1) 2 x 18 inch torpedo tubes (2x1)
Motto:

The first destroyer to be named HMS Electra was a Brazen class destroyer, later categorized as a C class destroyer, built at J & G Thomson Shipbuilding Company (which in a few years would be renamed John Brown Shipbuilding Company), at their Clydeside yard. She was one of the three-funneled ships of the 1895 Naval Programme. She was launched on 14 July 1896, but not completed until July 1900 because of severe labor troubles in the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain at that time.

She carried the pennant number N25 from 12 June 1914 until 9 January 1915, then D52 until 1 January 1918, and then D31 until she was decommissioned. She served in World War I, being used mostly for coastal patrol work and for escorting coastal convoys around Great Britain. She was sold for scrapping to Barking Ship Breaking Company on 29 April 1920.

[edit] References

Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860 - 1905 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1978)
Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1921 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985)