HMS Salmon (1895)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Salmon.
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Salmon
Builder: Earl's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Hull, Yorkshire
Laid down: 12 March 1894
Launched: 15 January 1895
Completed: January 1896
Fate: Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class and type:Salmon-class destroyer
Displacement:305 long tons (310 t)
Length:204.75 ft (62.41 m)
Beam:19.5 ft (5.9 m)
Draught:7.75 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Coal-fired Normand boilers
3,600 hp (2,685 kW)
Speed:27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:1 × QF 12-pounder gun
3 × 6-pounder guns
3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Salmon was a Salmon class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1895, served in home waters and was sold off in 1911.

Operational details

In late 1901 she was damaged in an accident, and temporarily repaired at Harwich by shipwrights from Sheerness Dockyard in December 1901.[1] The following month she was paid off at Sheerness, and ordered into dry dock for repairs.[2] She underwent repairs later in 1902.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 10 December 1901. (36634), p. 10.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 3 January 1902. (36655),
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 14 May 1902. (36767), p. 12.

The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning. Putnam and Co. 1961