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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rocket		269	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	14.2.1894	14.8.1894	7.1895	sold 4.1912
Shark		270	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	14.2.1894	22.9.1894	7.1895	sold 7.1911
Surly	P30, D3A, D82	271	J & G Thomson, Clydebank	14.2.1894	10.11.1894	7.1895	sold 3.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	280
Displacement full, t	325
Length, m	62.2 oa 61.0 pp
Breadth, m	5.97
Draught, m	2.06
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	4100
Max speed, kts	27
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	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 vessels were built with great speed by the Clydeside yard.

Modernizations

1901, Surly, Rocket: - 1 x 1 - 450 TT

1910, Rocket: - 3 x 1 - 57/40

9/1915, Surly: + 2 DCR

Naval service

No significant events.

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