HMS Hart (1895)
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| Career |
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| Name: |
HMS Hart |
| Builder: |
Fairfields, Govan |
| Launched: |
27 March 1895[1] |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrapping, 1912[1] |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: | Handy-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 275 long tons (279 t) |
| Length: | 194 ft (59 m) |
| Propulsion: | Thornycroft boilers, 4,000 hp (2,983 kW) |
| Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement: | 53 |
| Armament: | • 1 × 12 pounder gun
• 2 × torpedo tubes |
HMS Hart was a Handy-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built in 1895 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, spent most of her career on the China Station and was sold in 1912.
References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Manning, Captain T.D. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.