Ferret class destroyer

Ferret class destroyer

Two Ferret class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. HMS|Ferret|1893|6 and HMS|Lynx|1894|6 were built by Laird, displaced 290 tons and were 210 feet in length. They were armed with one 12-pounder gun and two bow torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 53.

Except for the bow positioning of the tubes, they were near-identical to the "Banshee" class also built by Laird at the same time.

References

* "The British Destroyer" by Captain T.D. Manning. Putnam and Co. 1961.

ee also

* List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy


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