Salmon-class destroyer
{{short description|Subclass of A-class destroyers}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Salmon class |Builders=Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before={{sclass|Janus|destroyer|4}} |Class after={{sclass|Banshee|destroyer|4}} |Subclasses= |Built range=1895 |In commission range=1895–1912 |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|305|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} |Ship length= {{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship propulsion=Yarrow boilers, {{convert|3600|hp|0|abbr=on}} |Ship speed={{convert|27|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship complement= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × 12 pounder gun
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The Salmon class were two destroyers built by Earle's to an Admiralty specification for service 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|Salmon|1895|6}} and {{HMS|Snapper|1895|6}} were launched in 1895. They displaced 305 tons, were {{convert|200|ft|m}} long and their Yarrow boilers produced {{convert|3,600|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}} which gave them the intended top speed of 27 knots. They were armed with one 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 53 officers and men.
In May 1912 they were sold for breaking up.
In 1913 all surviving similar vessels built to the same requirement were reclassified as the {{sclass2|A|destroyer (1913)|0}} torpedo boat destroyers.
See also
Bibliography
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- {{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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