HMS Dasher (1895)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Dasher
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down: December 1893
Launched: 28 November 1894
Completed: March 1896
Fate: Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class and type: Charger-class destroyer
Displacement: 255 long tons (259 t)
Length: 195 ft (59 m)
Beam: 18.5 ft (5.6 m)
Draught: 7.25 ft (2.2 m)
Propulsion: vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Coal-fired Normand boilers
3,800 hp (2,834 kW)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament: 1 × QF 12-pounder gun
3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Dasher was a Charger class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1895, served in home waters and was sold in 1911.

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