Английская Википедия:HMS Ardent (1894)

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HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy 27 knot torpedo boat destroyer ordered from John I Thornycroft & Company under the 1893 – 1894 Naval Estimates. She was the sixth ship to carry this name.[1]

Construction and design

On 12 October 1893, the British Admiralty placed an order for three torpedo boat destroyers (Ardent, Шаблон:HMS and Шаблон:HMS) with the shipbuilder Thornycroft under the 1893–1894 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy as a follow-on to the two prototype destroyers (Шаблон:HMS and Шаблон:HMS) ordered from Thornycroft under the 1892–1893 programme.[2][lower-alpha 1]

The Admiralty did not specify a standard design for destroyers, laying down broad requirements, including a trial speed of Шаблон:Convert, a "turtleback" forecastle[lower-alpha 2] and armament, which was to vary depending on whether the ship was to be used in the torpedo boat or gunboat role.[5] As a torpedo boat, the planned armament was a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (Шаблон:Convert calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), together with a secondary gun armament of three 6-pounder guns, and two 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes. As a gunboat, one of the torpedo tubes could be removed to accommodate a further two six-pounders.[6][7]

Thornycroft's design (known as the Шаблон:Sclass) was Шаблон:Convert long overall and Шаблон:Convert between perpendiculars, with a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Displacement was Шаблон:Convert light and Шаблон:Convert full load.[8] Three Thornycroft water-tube boilers fed steam to 2 four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines rated at Шаблон:Convert. Two funnels were fitted.[8][9]

Ardent was laid down as Yard number 297 in December 1893 at the Thornycroft shipyard at Church Wharf, Chiswick and launched on 16 October 1894 by Mrs C.T. Cornish, the daughter of the company founder John Isaac Thornycroft.[8][10][11] During her builder's trials at Maplin Sound on 9 November 1894 the ship achieved an average speed of 29.182 knots on her full power run. Her boiler pressure was 210 pounds per square inch with shafts turning at an average of 407 revolutions per minute.[12] She reached a speed of Шаблон:Convert over the measured mile and a six-hour average speed of Шаблон:Convert during official trials on 15 December 1894.[13] Ardent was completed on 25 March 1895.[8]

Service history

The torpedo boat destroyer was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 30 April 1895 at Portsmouth under the command of Lieutenant & Commander Godfrey H B Mundy for service on the Mediterranean Station based at Malta.[14] Ardent departed Portsmouth on 14 May 1895, stopping at Plymouth to join the third-class cruiser Шаблон:HMS. They departed for Malta on 15 May 1895.[15] Upon her arrival she became tender to the fleet flagship, the battleship Шаблон:HMS. Among Ardent′s duties was the training of stokers in the management of water-tube boilers.[11]

On 31 March 1901, Ardent was listed as being at Malta for the British Empire census. In April 1902 she was on tactical and gunnery exercises with the Mediterranean Fleet,[16] and in September that year she was part of a squadron visiting the Aegean Sea for combined manoeuvres near Nauplia and Souda Bay at Crete.[17] She paid off at Gibraltar on 22 October 1902.[18] On 17 April 1906, the torpedo boat Шаблон:HMS was in collision with Ardent while carrying out exercises at night off Malta. TB 84 sank, with one of her crew being killed in the accident.[19][20][21]

Upon her return to home waters in early 1911, Ardent was paid off into reserve. She was listed on the July 1911 (Quarterly) Navy List as being for sale.[22] Ardent was sold on 10 October 1911 for breaking,[1] raising a price of £1400.[23]

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  8. ↑ 8,0 8,1 8,2 8,3 Шаблон:Harvnb
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  11. ↑ 11,0 11,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  14. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  15. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  17. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  18. ↑ Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  19. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  20. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  21. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb
  22. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  23. ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine


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