Brazen-class destroyer

Class overview
HMS Recruit in 1896
Operators:	Royal Navy
Built:	1896
Completed:	4
Lost:	1
Scrapped:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Notes:	Re-classified as C-class destroyers in 1913

The Brazen class formed part of a general class of forty turtleback destroyers capable of 30 knots built around the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th century for the Royal Navy.

The Admiralty had specified the general design and specification of the destroyers but left it to the builders to handle the detail. As a result although the destroyers were all similarly capable there were differences between them in terms of exact dimensions, type of boiler and engines and the number of funnels. They were seaworthy and well built but suffered from being lively which meant they were uncomfortable in heavy seas. Although specified for 30 knots this was with a light load, and in service 27 knots was normal.

In 1913 all the three-funnelled destroyers were reclassified as C-class destroyers.

Ships

Name	Launched	Fate
HMS Brazen	3 July 1896	Broken up in 1919^[1]
HMS Electra	14 July 1896	Broken up in 1920^[1]
HMS Recruit	22 August 1896	Torpedoed in 1915^[1]
HMS Vulture	22 March 1898	Broken up in 1919^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 "Brazen class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.

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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