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Name Official number Flag IMO
RECRUIT       
Year built Date launched Date completed
1900  22/08/1896   
Vessel type Vessel description
Naval Torpedo Boat Destroyer  Steel Screw Steamer 1 Mast 
Builder Yard Yard no
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank Clydebank  290 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
 /  / 380 disp 218 ft  20 ft     
Engine builder ,
Engine detail
2-Screw, 4 Normand boilers, coal, 5800ihp 

First owner First port of register Registration date
Admiralty     
Other names
 
Subsequent owner and registration history
 
Vessel history
TBD, Thomson 30-knotter. 1895-6 order
There were difficulties in meeting the contract speed in this class and she was not completed until 30th July 1900. 
Remarks
 
End year Fate / Status
1915  Torpedoed 01/05/1915 
Disposal Detail
Torpedoed and sunk 1/5/1915 by a Ub-6 off the Galloper Lightship, North Sea 
 

 

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