HMS Bruizer (1895)

Career
Name: HMS Bruizer
Builder: Thornycroft, Chiswick
Launched: 27 February 1895
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 26 May 1914
General characteristics
Class and type: Ardent-class destroyer
Displacement: 265 long tons (269 t)
Length: 200 ft (61 m)
Propulsion: Triple expansion steam engines
Coal-fired water-tube boilers
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement: 53
Armament: • 1 × 12-pounder gun
• 5 × 6-pounder guns
• 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Bruizer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 27 February 1895 by John Thornycroft at Chiswick,[1] and was sold on 26 May 1914.[2]

At the launch at Chiswick on 27 February 1895 the naming ceremony was performed by Miss Kathleen Barnaby, the daughter of the S.W. Barnaby the naval architect.[3]

References

  1. ^ The Times (London), Thursday, February 28, 1895, p.4
  2. ^ "HMS Bruizer". pbenyon.plus.com. http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00711.html. Retrieved 27 July 2010. 
  3. ^ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times (London). Thursday, 28 February 1895. Issue 34512, col B, p. 4.