HMS Seal (1897)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Seal
Builder: Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down: 17 June 1896
Launched: 6 March 1897
Completed: May 1898
Fate: Scrapped, 1921
General characteristics
Class and type: Earnest-class destroyer
Displacement: 395 long tons (401 t)
Length: 210 ft (64 m)
Beam: 21.5 ft (6.6 m)
Draught: 9.75 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion: vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Coal-fired Normand boilers
6,300 hp (4,698 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 63
Armament: 1 × QF 12-pounder gun
2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Seal was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897.