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Velox 1912

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Velox	P45, D71	383	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	10.4.1901	11.2.1902	2/1904	sunk 25.10.1915

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	400
Displacement full, t	445
Length, m	65.5 oa 64.0 pp
Breadth, m	6.00
Draught, m	2.74
No of shafts	4 (twin screws)
Machinery	4 Parsons steam turbines / 2 cruising VTE (on two shafts), 4 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	8000 / 200
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 85
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	63

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Project history

Parsons began this destroyer, originally to be named Python, as a private venture, with the hull constructed by Hawthorn Leslie, to experiment with a mixed power plant. She was purchased 7.6.1902. Turbines intended for high speeds were not economical in fuel at ordinary cruising speeds. Therefore a separate pair of TE engines were coupled to the low pressure turbine shafts. The problem would eventually be solved by fitting separate cruising turbines, as was done to Velox in 1906. Velox had two propellers on each shaft.     Another turbine boat was ordered a little later, but as she was basically one of the 'River' class she is listed under that class.

Modernizations

1906: VTEs were replaced by cruising turbines.

Naval service

Velox was mined off the Nab 25.10.1915.