Ardent class destroyer

Ardent class destroyer

The "Ardent"-class torpedo boat destroyers served with the Royal Navy. The three ships; HMS|Ardent|1894, HMS|Boxer|1895 and HMS|Bruiser|1895, were built by Thornycroft, and displaced 265 tons. They were 200 feet in length, and were armed with one 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes.

References

* Captain T.D. Manning, "The British Destroyer" (Putnam and Co., 1961)


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