Conflict-class destroyer
{{short description|Subclass of the A-class destroyers}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:HMS Conflict (1894) IWM Q 021112.jpg |Ship caption=HMS Conflict }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Conflict class |Builders=J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before={{sclass|Fervent|destroyer|4}} |Class after={{sclass|Handy|destroyer|4}} |Subclasses= |Cost= |Built range= |In service range= |In commission range= 1895–1920 |Total ships building= |Total ships planned= |Total ships completed=3 |Total ships cancelled= |Total ships active= |Total ships laid up= |Total ships lost= |Total ships retired=3 |Total ships preserved= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Destroyer |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement= {{convert|320|LT|t|0}} |Ship length={{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship decks= |Ship propulsion=White-Forster boilers, {{convert|4500|hp|0|abbr=on}} |Ship speed= {{convert|27|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship complement=53 officers and men |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
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Three Conflict-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. All were built by the White Shipyard.
Under the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of {{convert|27|kn}}, the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87.Manning 1961, p. 39.
{{HMS|Conflict|1894|2}}, {{HMS|Teazer|1895|2}}, and {{HMS|Wizard|1895|2}} were {{convert|200|ft|m}} long, displaced 320 tons and produced {{convert|4500|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}} from their White-Forster boilers to give them a top speed of {{convert|27|kn}}. They were armed, as was standard with ships of this type at the time, with one twelve pounder gun, two torpedo tubes and had a complement of 53 officers and men.
In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Conflict and Wizard (Teazer having been sold for scrap in 1912) as A Class destroyers.
See also
Bibliography
{{Commons category|Conflict class destroyer}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|year=1979 |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London |isbn=0-85177-133-5}}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book
|last=Lyon |first=David
|title=The First Destroyers
|year=2001|location=London|publisher=Caxton Editions|orig-year=1996
|isbn=1-84067-364-8
|ref=Lyon, The First Destroyers}}
- {{cite book |last=Manning |first= T. D. | title=The British Destroyer | publisher=Putnam & Co. | year=1961|oclc= 6470051}}
- {{cite book|last=March|first=Edgar J.|title=British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans|year=1966|publisher=Seeley Service|location=London |oclc=164893555}}
References
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