HMS Lively (1900)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Lively.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Lively
Builder:	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down:	20 June 1899
Launched:	14 July 1900
Completed:	April 1902
Fate:	Scrapped, 1920
General characteristics
Class & type:	Lively-class destroyer
Displacement:	385 long tons (391 t)
Length:	219 ft (67 m)
Beam:	21.25 ft (6.5 m)
Draught:	8 ft 7 in (2.6 m)
Propulsion:	Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 6,250 hp (4,661 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 6-pounder guns 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Lively was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built speculatively by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, pre-empting further orders for vessels of this type, and was bought by the navy in 1901.

Operational history

HMS Lively was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant James Rose Price Hawksley on 13 May 1902,^[1] with the crew of the HMS Ostrich, taking that ship´s place in the Instructional flotilla ^[2]

References

↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 21 May 1902. (36773), p. 10.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 10 May 1902. (36764), p. 8.

B-class destroyer

Quail class	Quail Sparrowhawk Thrasher Virago

Earnest class	Earnest Griffon Locust Panther Seal Wolf

Lively class	Lively Sprightly Success

Spiteful class	Spiteful Peterel

Myrmidon class	Myrmidon Syren

Palmers final group	Albacore Bonetta

Unique ships	Kangaroo Express Orwell Arab Cobra

Preceded by: A class Followed by: C class List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

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