Handy class destroyer

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Three Handy class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. HMS Handy (1895), HMS Hart (1895) and HMS Hunter (1895) were all built by Fairfield. The ships displaced 275 tons, were 194 feet long and their 4,000 h.p. Thornycroft boilers produced 27 knots. They were armed with one twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 53 officers and men.

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• The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning. Published by Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0 906223 12 x.