Английская Википедия:HMS Sparrowhawk (1895)

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HMS Sparrowhawk was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, and was launched on 8 October 1895.[1] She served on the China Station and was wrecked in the mouth of the Yangtze River in 1904.[2] She was one of four Quail-class destroyers.

Design and construction

HMS Sparrowhawk was the second of four 30-knot destroyers ordered from Laird's as part of the 1894–1895 Royal Navy shipbuilding programme.[3] As with other early Royal Navy destroyers, the detailed design was left to the builder, with the Admiralty laying down only broad requirements.[4][5] In order to meet the contract speed of Шаблон:Convert, Laird's design was powered by two four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at Шаблон:Convert, and was fitted with four funnels.[3][6]

The ship had an overall length of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Displacement was Шаблон:Convert light and Шаблон:Convert full load,[3][6] while crew was 63.[7] Armament consisted of a 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), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.[8][9]

Sparrowhawk was laid down as Yard No 607 on 30 May 1895, and was launched on 8 October 1895.[10] She reached a speed of Шаблон:Convert over a measured mile and an average speed of Шаблон:Convert over three hours during trials on 11 December 1896.[11] Sparrowhawk commissioned in June 1897.[10]

Service

Newly commissioned, Sparrowhawk took part in the naval review off Spithead on 26 June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.[12] Laird's thirty-knotters were considered strongly built ships and good seaboats, suitable for deployment on overseas stations,[13][6] and so Sparrowhawk and sister ship Шаблон:HMS were deployed to the Pacific Station in 1897, being based at Esquimault, British Columbia, Canada.[14]

Sparrowhawk was later deployed to the China Station. On 17 June 1904, Sparrowhawk struck an uncharted rock off the mouth of the Yangtze river during fleet exercises. While all the crew survived, attempts by the battleship Шаблон:HMS to recover the stricken destroyer failed, and Sparrowhawk sank.[15][16][17]

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  1. ↑ The Times (London), Wednesday, 9 October 1895, p.7
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Lyon 2001, pp. 61–62.
  4. ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87.
  5. ↑ Manning 1961, p. 39.
  6. ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 94.
  7. ↑ Manning 1961, p. 40.
  8. ↑ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.
  9. ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 40.
  10. ↑ 10,0 10,1 Lyon 2001, p. 61.
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine.
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  13. ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 116.
  14. ↑ Lyon 2001, pp. 62, 100.
  15. ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 62.
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  17. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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