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Sturgeon 1896

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sturgeon			Naval Construction & Armament, Barrow	1.3.1894	21.7.1894	1.1896	sold 5.1912
Starfish			Naval Construction & Armament, Barrow	22.3.1894	26.1.1895	1.1896	sold 5.1912
Skate			Naval Construction & Armament, Barrow	20.3.1894	13.3.1895	1.1896	sold 4.1907

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	300
Displacement full, t	340
Length, m	59.3 oa 57.9 pp
Breadth, m	5.79
Draught, m	2.31
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VTE, 4 Blechynden boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	27.8
Fuel, t	coal 57
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	52

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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.

Modernizations

1901, Skate: - 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Naval service

Skate was put on sale list in November 1905 but was used as a target for shore batteries and sold for BU in 1907.