HMS Ferret (1893)
{{other ships|HMS Ferret}}
{{short description|Ferret-class destroyer}}
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|Ship speed= {{convert|27|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship complement= 42 (later 53) |Ship armament=*1 × QF 12-pounder gun |Ship notes= }} |
HMS Ferret was a {{Sclass|Ferret|destroyer|1}} which served with the Royal Navy from 1893 and was sunk in 1911.
Construction
Ferret was armed with one 12-pounder and three 6-pounder guns, and three torpedo tubes (two on deck mounts and one fixed bow tube). The bow tube was soon removed, and provision was made for removing the deck tubes and substituting two extra 6-pounder guns. She carried a complement of 42 (later raised to 53). 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 on 9 December 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|1869|6}}, gunnery ship off Plymouth.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=1 February 1900 |page=6 |issue=36054 }}
She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers during Spring 1902,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=14 May 1902 |page=12 |issue=36767}} following which she was in July that year transferred to succeed {{HMS|Lynx|1894|6}} as tender to {{HMS|Defiance|1861|6}}, torpedo school ship at Devonport.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=17 July 1902 |page=9 |issue=36822}}
She took part in the Coronation Review for King Edward VII on 16 August 1902, with Lieutenant Arthur William Tomlinson temporarily in command from 8 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=28 July 1902 |page=7 |issue=36831}}
She was sunk as a target in 1911.
References
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Bibliography
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- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
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- {{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}}
{{Ferret class destroyer}}
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