HMS Thrasher (1895)
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| Name: | HMS Thrasher |
| Builder: | Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead |
| Yard number: | 608 |
| Laid down: | 30 May 1895 |
| Launched: | 5 November 1895 |
| Commissioned: | June 1897 |
| Fate: | Sold for disposal, 1919 |
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| Class and type: | Quail-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 218 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 63 |
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HMS Thrasher was a "thirty-knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897. One of four Quail-class destroyers (later classed as part of the B-class), she served in the First World War, sinking the German submarine UC-39 in 1917, and was sold off after hostilities ended.
As part of its 1894–1895 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy, the British Admiralty placed orders with Laird Brothers for four destroyers. The destroyers ordered under the 1894–1895 programme had a contracted speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) rather than the 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) required of previous destroyers. Armament was specified to be a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. As with other early Royal Navy destroyers, the detailed design was left to the builder, with the Admiralty laying down only broad requirements.
Laird's four ships were each powered by two four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW), and were fitted with four funnels. They had an overall length of 218 feet (66.45 m), a beam of 21 feet 6 inches (6.55 m) and a draught of 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m). Displacement was 355 long tons (361 t) light and 415 long tons (422 t) full load, while crew was 63.
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