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Ranger

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sunfish	D47, D2A, D81	325	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	29.8.1894	28.5.1895	2.1896	sold 6.1920
Opossum	D12, D99, D62	326	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	17.9.1894	9.8.1895	3.1896	sold 7.1920
Ranger	D1A	327	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	17.9.1894	4.10.1895	6.1896	sold 5.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	310
Displacement full, t	340
Length, m	62.2 oa 61.0 pp
Breadth, m	5.79
Draught, m	2.62
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 8 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 62
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 5 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (4)
Complement	58

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Project history

Before the Havock had completed it was decided to order another six destroyers from Thornycroft and Yarrow. Another nine were ordered from other builders making up, a few months later, the 1893/94 Programme. Apart from a slight increase in size the main difference was that the gun armament was increased by 2 57mm guns. The first six (the Thornycroft and Yarrow boats) had a bow tube fitted, but it was found to throw up clouds of spray in anything except a flat calm, had a bad effect on seakeeping and was soon removed.

These sturdy vessels had three funnels.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.