Fervent-class destroyer
{{short description|Subclass of the A-class destroyers}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Zephyr (1895).jpg |Ship caption=HMS Zephyr with four funnels, after reboilering and the addition of three funnels. }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Fervent class |Builders=Hanna, Donald & Wilson, Paisley |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before={{sclass|Banshee|destroyer|4}} |Class after={{sclass|Conflict|destroyer|4}} |Subclasses= |Built range=1895 |In commission range=1901–1920 |Total ships building= |Total ships planned= |Total ships completed=2 |Total ships cancelled= |Total ships active= |Total ships laid up= |Total ships lost= |Total ships retired= |Total ships scrapped=2 |Total ships preserved= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Torpedo Boat Destroyer |Ship displacement= {{convert|275|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} |Ship length= {{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship propulsion={{convert|3850|shp|lk=in|0|abbr=on}} |Ship speed={{convert|27|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship complement=53 |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × 12-pounder gun
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Two Fervent-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy.
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|Fervent|1895|6}} and {{HMS|Zephyr|1895|6}} were designed and built by Hanna Donald in 1895. The ships displaced 275 tons and were {{convert|200|ft|m}} long. Their locomotive (later Reed) boilers generated {{convert|3,850|shp|lk=in|abbr=on}} which produced a top speed of between 26 and 27 knots. As was usual with ships of their type, they carried one 12-pounder, two torpedo tubes and had a complement of 53 officers and men.
Both ships served in home waters. They originally were designed with one funnel but when they failed to reach their contract speed they were reboilered with four funnels. Due to these problems, the ships did not leave their builders until 1901.
In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Fervent and Zephyr as A Class destroyers.
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- {{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 journal |last1=Donald|first1=William|title=A Shipbuilder's Problems: Hanna, Donald, & Wilson and the Early Destroyer|journal=Warship International|date=2012|volume=XLIX|issue=1 |pages=45–58|issn=0043-0374}}
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- {{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}}
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{{A class destroyer (1913)}}