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Havock 1894

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Havock		968	Yarrow, Poplar	7.1892	12.8.1893	1.1894	despatch vessel 1905, sold 5.1912
Hornet		969	Yarrow, Poplar	7.1892	23.12.1893	7.1894	despatch vessel 1905, sold 10.1909

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	240
Displacement full, t	275
Length, m	56.4 oa 54.9 pp
Breadth, m	5.67
Draught, m	2.21
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Havock: 2 4-cyl VTE, 2 locomotive fire-tube boilers Hornet: 2 4-cyl VTE, 8 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	3700 (Hornet) 3500 (Havock)
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	coal 47
Endurance, nm(kts)	1195(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 (6 at all)
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. Havock was the only destroyer with locomotive boilers, and with this well-tried installation she could therefore be completed before the others, the first destroyer. She had only two funnels very close together whilst Hornet with water-tube boilers had four.

Modernizations

1900, Havock: was re-boilered with 3 Yarrow water-tube boilers (3800hp, 26kts); - 1 - 450 TT (without spare torpedoes)

1905: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Naval service

No significant events.

plan

after re-boilered