HMS Decoy (1894)
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HMS Decoy was a Daring-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She produced 4,200 H.P., could make 27 knots and was armed with a twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes.
Her bow tube proved useless in practice as, running at high attack speeds, the ship was prone to overtake its own torpedo. The clumsy tube reduced living quarters and made the bridge very prone to flooding.
She was built by Thornycroft, launched in 1894 and lost in a collision with the Arun off the Scillies in 1904.
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The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning, Putnam and Co, 1961.
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