HMS Spiteful (1899)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Spiteful.
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Spiteful |
| Builder: | Palmers, Jarrow |
| Launched: | 11 January 1899 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up, 14 September 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Spiteful-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 350 long tons (356 t) |
| Length: | 210 ft (64 m) |
| Propulsion: | 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 Spiteful was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer privately built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, Jarrow, for the Royal Navy in 1899.
She served with the instructional flotilla after being launched. In February 1901 she went ashore near the Isle of Wight and was docked at Portsmouth Dockyard for overhaul.[1]
In 1904 she had her boilers modified to burn fuel oil as an experiment and comparative trials were carried out with her sister ship Peterel. Unfortunately the novel fuel system was not a success and billowed out large clouds of black smoke, leading to the abandonment of the idea for several years. She was scrapped in 1920.
References
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 5 March 1901. (36394), p. 8.
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