HMS Banshee (1894)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Banshee
Builder:	Laird, Son and Co., Birkenhead
Launched:	17 November 1894
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1912
General characteristics
Class & type:	Banshee-class destroyer
Displacement:	290 long tons (295 t)
Length:	210 ft (64 m)
Beam:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Draught:	7 ft (2.1 m)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement:	53
Armament:	1 × 12-pounder gun 2 × torpedo tubes

HMS Banshee was one of three Banshee-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy.

She was launched on 17 November 1894 at the Laird, Son and Co shipyard, Birkenhead,^[1] and served most of her time in the Mediterranean. Banshee was sold off in 1912.

Notes

1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
• Manning, T.D (1979) [1961]. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.

External links

• "battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 10 December 2007.