HMS Contest (1894)

Career
Name: HMS Contest
Builder: Laird, Son and Co., Birkenhead
Launched: 1 December 1894
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1911
General characteristics
Class and type: Banshee-class destroyer
Displacement: 290 long tons (295 t)
Length: 210 ft (64 m)
Beam: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Draught: 7 ft (2.1 m)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement: 53
Armament: • 1 × 12 pounder gun
• 2 × torpedo tubes

HMS Contest was one of three Banshee-class destroyers to serve with the Royal Navy.

She was launched on 1 December 1894 at the Laird, Son and Co shipyard, Birkenhead,[1] and served most of her career in home waters. She was sold off in 1911.

References

  1. ^ The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10