HMS Otter (1896)

Career
Name: HMS Otter
Builder: Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 23 November 1896[1]
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 1916[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Avon-class destroyer
Displacement: 385 long tons (391 t)
Length: 210 ft (64 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Complement: 63
Armament: • 1 × 12-pounder gun
• 5 × 6-pounder guns
• 2 × torpedo tubes

HMS Otter was one of three Avon-class destroyers to serve with the Royal Navy. She spent her whole career on the China Station and was sold in 1916.

References

  1. ^ a b "HMS Otter". pbenyon.plus.com. http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/N/03365.html. Retrieved 26 July 2010.