Avon-class destroyer

Avon-class destroyer was a class of three destroyers that served in the Royal Navy. These three funnelled 30 knot vessels were redesignated C-class destroyers in the reorganisation of 1913.^[1]

The three ships, Avon, Bittern and Otter, were built by Vickers at Barrow, were 210 feet long and their Normand boilers produced 6,300 HP and 30 knots. They were armed with the standard twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men.

References

↑ "Avon-class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-02.

Three-funnel 30-knotter torpedo boat destroyers (reclassified in 1912 as C-class destroyers)

Palmer 30 knotters	Bat Chamois Crane Fawn Flirt Flying Fish Star Whiting

Earl 30 knotters	Bullfinch Dove

Doxford 30 knotters	Lee Sylvia Violet

Vickers 30 knotters	Avon Bittern Leopard Otter Vixen

Clydebank 30 knotters	Brazen Electra Recruit Vulture Kestrel Thorn Tiger Vigilant

Hawthorn Leslie 30 knotters	Cheerful Mermaid Greyhound Racehorse Roebuck

Fairfields 30 knotters	Fairy Falcon Gipsy Leven Osprey Ostrich

Thornycroft 33 knotters	Albatross

Parsons turbine specials	Velox Viper

Preceded by: B class Followed by: D class List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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