Conflict-class destroyer

HMS Conflict
HMS Conflict
Class overview
NameConflict class
BuildersJ. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded byFervent class
Succeeded byHandy class
In commission1895–1920
Completed3
Retired3
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer
Displacement320 long tons (325 t)
Length200 ft (61 m)
PropulsionWhite-Forster boilers, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW)
Speed27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement53 officers and men
Armament

Three Conflict-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. All were built by the White Shipyard.

Under the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph), the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.[1][2]

Conflict, Teazer, and Wizard were 200 feet (61 m) long, displaced 320 tons and produced 4,500 hp (3,400 kW) from their White-Forster boilers to give them a top speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph). They were armed, as was standard with ships of this type at the time, with one twelve pounder gun, two torpedo tubes and had a complement of 53 officers and men.

In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Conflict and Wizard (Teazer having been sold for scrap in 1912) as A Class destroyers.

See also

Bibliography

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References

  1. ^ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87.
  2. ^ Manning 1961, p. 39.


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