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Lynx

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ferret		596	Laird, Birkenhead	7.1893	9.12.1893	3.1895	test vessel 12.1908
Lynx		597	Laird, Birkenhead	7.1893	24.1.1894	8.1895	sold 4.1912

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	300
Displacement full, t	350
Length, m	60.1 oa 59.4 pp
Breadth, m	6.04
Draught, m	2.74
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	4475
Max speed, kts	27.2
Fuel, t	coal 58
Endurance, nm(kts)	1155(11)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 3 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 450 TT (bow aw), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	46

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Project history

The first 5 destroyers were 26-knotters with an armament of 3-450mm TT (one fixed bow tube, two single deck tubes), 1 76mm and 3 57mm. This was the armament carried, but provision was made for landing the two deck tubes and replacing them by an extra 2 57mm if they were to be used entirely for anti-torpedo boat work. All these destroyers had twin shafts and triple expansion engines, though the Thornycroft boats had a special four cylinder triple expansion design.

Whilst not specializing in building torpedo boats, Laird had already had some success in building torpedo vessels and were a logical choice to follow Thornycroft and Yarrow in laying down destroyers. They produced a four funnelled design with French-designed (Normand) boilers.

Modernizations

1900, both: - 1 - 450 TT (without spare torpedoes)

1902, Lynx; 1906, Ferret: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Naval service

In 1907 Ferret was surveyed and found to be worn out, in December 1908 she was used in experiments, charging boom defences before being dismantled at Chatham in 1910. In 1911 she was sunk as a target. Lynx was used for tests since 1902.