HMS Charger (1894)
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Name: | HMS Charger |
Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London |
Laid down: | November 1893 |
Launched: | 15 September 1894 |
Completed: | February 1896 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1912 |
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Class & type: | Charger-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 255 long tons (259 t) |
Length: | 195 ft (59 m) |
Beam: | 18.5 ft (5.6 m) |
Draught: | 7.25 ft (2.2 m) |
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Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
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HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894,[1] served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.
Service history
Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902,[2] for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla.[3] Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.[4]
Notes
- ↑ The Times (London), Monday, 17 September 1894, p.8
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 20 March 1902. (36720), p. 10.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 12 March 1902. (36713), p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 21 April 1902. (36747), p. 6.
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