Английская Википедия:HMS Hardy (1895)

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HMS Hardy was a Шаблон:Sclass which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by William Doxford & Sons in 1895, launched on 16 December 1895, and sold off on 11 July 1911.

Construction and design

HMS Hardy was one of the two destroyers ordered from William Doxford & Sons on 3 November 1893 as part of the Royal Navy's 1893–1894 construction programme.[1]

The Admiralty did not specify a standard design for destroyers, laying down broad requirements, including a trial speed of Шаблон:Convert, a "turtleback"[lower-alpha 1] forecastle and armament, which was to vary depending on whether the ship was to be used in the torpedo boat or gunboat role.[3] 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 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. As a gunboat, one of the torpedo tubes could be removed to accommodate a further two six-pounders.[4][5]

Doxford's design had a hull of length Шаблон:Convert overall and Шаблон:Convert between perpendiculars, with a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Eight Yarrow boilers fed steam at Шаблон:Convert to triple expansion steam engines rated at Шаблон:Convert and driving two propeller shafts. Displacement was Шаблон:Convert light and Шаблон:Convert deep load.[1] Unusually for the destroyers ordered under the 1893–1894 programme, the Admiralty accepted a guaranteed speed of Шаблон:Convert, rather than the more normal 27 knots, possibly owing to Doxford's inexperience in building torpedo-craft.[6][1] This speed dropped to Шаблон:Convert at deep load. Sufficient coal was carried to give a range of Шаблон:Convert at Шаблон:Convert.[7] Three funnels were fitted.[6] The ship's complement was 50 officers and men.[8]

She was laid down as Yard Number 226 at Doxford's Sunderland shipyard on 4 June 1894, and was launched on 16 December 1895.[1] Sea trials were successful,[9] with the ship reaching an average speed of Шаблон:Convert,[8] and she was completed in August 1896.[1]

Service history

She saw early service in home waters. In 1896 Hardy was in reserve at Chatham.[10] In 1901 she was with the Mediterranean Squadron,[11] but was relieved by the destroyer Шаблон:HMS in late May the following year.[12] She arrived at Plymouth on 5 July 1902, and paid off at Chatham later the same month.[13] Lieutenant Robert Gordon Douglas Dewar was appointed in command during summer 1902,[14] and was briefly succeeded by Lieutenant George Geoffrey Codrington from late 1902 until January 1903, when she took the place of HMS Angler in the Medway instructional flotilla.[15]

Hardy was sold for scrap at Devonport for £1400 on 11 July 1911.[16]

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