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Fervent as built

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Fervent	N17, D97, D39		Hanna Donald & Wilson, Paisley	27.3.1894	20.3.1895	6.1900	sold 4.1920
Zephyr	N86, D4A, D98		Hanna Donald & Wilson, Paisley	23.4.1894	10.5.1895	7.1901	sold 2.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	275
Displacement full, t	320
Length, m	62.4 oa 61.0 pp
Breadth, m	5.79
Draught, m	2.21
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 2 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	26
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	48

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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.     This pair were the only destroyers built with one funnel until the Italians built some in the 1930s. They were also quite the most unsuccessful of the 27-knotters, and their complete failure to meet the contract speed finally drove their builder out of business. They had to be reboilered, and even then could only make26kts. The reboilering meant that they eventually entered service as four funnelled ships.

Modernizations

1908, both: boilers were replaced by 4 Reed, 3800hp, 27kts, single funnel was replaced by four.

1916, both: + 2 DCR

Naval service

No significant events.