HMS Ferret (1893)
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| Name: | HMS Ferret |
| Builder: | Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | July 1893 |
| Launched: | 9 December 1893 |
| Completed: | March 1895 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target, 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Ferret-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 280 long tons (284 t) |
| Length: | 199 ft (60.7 m) |
| Beam: | 19.25 ft (5.9 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
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HMS Ferret was a Ferret-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy from 1893 and was sunk in 1911.
Construction
Ferret was armed with one 12-pounder gun and two bow torpedo tubes. Later in her career she was fitted out for boom breaking as an experiment. Her forebridge, gun and bow tube were removed and the turtle backed forecastle was strengthened for this purpose.
Service history
Ferret was launched in 1893 and completed in 1895.
She served in the Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become tender to HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship off Plymouth.[1]
She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers in 1902.[2]
She was sunk as a target in 1911.
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