Name: | FLYING FISH |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 02/08/1896 |
Launched: | 04/03/1897 |
Completed: | 01/12/1897 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 715 |
Dimensions: | 360disp - 440disp, 215.0 x 20.5 x 7.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl, 6200ihp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 12pdr & 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
01/12/1897 | British Royal Navy |
30/08/1919 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Star Class of destroyers |
1913: Redesignated as a C Class destroyer | |
30/08/1919: Sold for breaking up by TR Sales |
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Glasgow Herald, Friday, 05/03/1897