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The Royal Navy Ships
HMS
FERRET Torpedo Boat Destroyer.
Banshee
Class : Built 1893 by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd, Birkenhead.
Launched
9th December 1893
280
grt ; 199ft x 9ft
53 hands
Armed
: 1 x 12 pdr; 3 x 6pdr; 2 x Bow Torpedo Tubes
16
knots
Became an experimental Boom Breaker.
Scrapped
1911.
HMS FERRET
Thanks to David Page for this picture.
http://www.navyphotos.co.uk
HMS
CURLEW
Built
at Devonport
Launched
23 Oct 1885.
950 grt;
195ft x 10ft 6ins
Armed: 1 x 6in, 3
x 5in
Coal
fired steam engines:14.5 knots
Scrapped 1906.
HMS CONTEST Sister to CURLEW
from a postcard
HMS
TRAVELLER – reported as a “destroyer”
Built
as a tug at South Shields 1885 as the STORMCOCK
Purchased
for naval service the same year.
700
grt ; 160ft x 24ft ; 12 knots
Armed : 4 x 3 pdr
HMS
LEDA torpedo gunboat
Sister
to the Renard
Built
at Sheerness
Launched
13th September 1892
1909
converted to a minesweeper
Sold
1920.
HMS
RENARD ( Fisheries protection vessel )
Gunboat
built at Birkenhead
Launched
6th December 1892
810
grt; 230ft x 27ft; 18 knots
Armed: 2 x 4.7in, 4 x 3pdr, 5 x torpedo tubes
HMS RENARD
from a postcard
My thanks to David J Hepper for his
kind help with details of the ships involved.
Raymond
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