HMS Brazen (1896)
{{Short description|Former Royal Navy destroyer (1896–1919)}}
{{Other ships|HMS Brazen}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg | Ship name=Brazen | Ship ordered=1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates | Ship builder= J & G Thompson, Clydebank | Ship laid down=18 October 1895 | Ship launched=3 July 1896 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=July 1900 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=Laid up in reserve 1919 | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate= 4 November 1919 to J.H. Lee for breaking | Ship honours= | Ship badge= | Ship motto= | Ship identification= | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header=no |Header caption= |Ship class=Clydebank three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1905|orig-year=1905|year=1969|publisher=first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, reprinted ARCO Publishing Company |location=New York |page=77}}{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title= Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I |year=1990 |orig-year= 1919, reprinted |publisher= Jane’s Publishing © 1919 |isbn=1-85170-378-0 |page=77}} |Ship displacement=*{{Convert|380|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
|Ship propulsion=*4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler
|Ship speed= {{convert|30|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} |Ship range=*80 tons coal
| Ship complement= 63 officers and men | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=
| Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes= }}{{Infobox service record |is_ship=yes |is_multi= |label= |partof= |codes= |commanders= |operations=World War I 1914 - 1918 |victories= |awards= }} |
HMS Brazen was a Clydebank three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895-1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1781 for a 14-gun cutter, sold in 1799.{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title= Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898 |orig-year=1898 |year=1969 |publisher= first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company |location= New York |pages=84 to 85}}{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Fred T. |title= Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I |year=1990 |orig-year= 1919, reprinted |publisher= Jane’s Publishing © 1919 |isbn=1-85170-378-0 |page=76}}
Construction and career
She was laid down as yard number 289 on 18 October 1895 at J & G Thompson shipyard in Clydebank and launched on 3 July 1896. During her builder's trials, she had problems attaining her contract speed. Her hull was lengthened by {{convert|4|ft}}, then she made her contract speed of {{convert|30|knots}}. In 1899 during the construction of these ships, steelmaker John Brown and Company of Sheffield bought J&G Thomson's Clydebank yard for £923,255 3s 3d. She was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in July 1900. After commissioning she was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla. She was deployed in Home waters for her entire service life. In June 1902 she took the place of {{HMS|Zephyr|1895|6}} in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=7 June 1902 |page=9 |issue=36788}}
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. Since her design speed was {{convert|30|knots}} and she had three funnels, she was assigned to the C class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as a C-class destroyer and had the letter 'C' painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.{{cite book |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922 |year=2006 |orig-year= 1985, reprinted 1986, 1997, 2002, 2006 |publisher= Conway Maritime Press |isbn=0-85177-245-5 |pages=17 to 19}}
=World War I=
In 1914 she was in active commission at the Nore based at Shearness tendered to HMS Actaeon, a Royal Navy training establishment. With the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 she was assigned to the Nore Local Flotilla. Her duties included anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols in the Thames Estuary.
In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal. She was sold on 4 November 1919 to J.H. Lee for breaking.{{cite web|title="Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class|url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm|access-date=1 Jun 2013}}
Pennant Numbers
References
NOTE: All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified
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Bibliography
- {{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|last1=Dittmar|first1=F. J.|last2=Colledge|first2=J. J.|title=British Warships 1914–1919|year=1972|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton, UK|isbn=0-7110-0380-7|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{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|orig-year=1996|publisher=Caxton Editions|location=London|isbn=1-84067-3648}}
- {{cite book|last=Manning|first=T. D.|title=The British Destroyer|year=1961|publisher=Putnam & Co.|location=London|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}}
External links
- [http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm "Arrowsmith" List: Royal Navy WW1 Destroyer Pendant Numbers]
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Category:Ships built on the River Clyde