HMS Charger (1894)

Plans for the Charger class
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Charger
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down: November 1893
Launched: 15 September 1894
Completed: February 1896
Fate: Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class & type: Charger-class destroyer
Displacement: 255 long tons (259 t)
Length: 195 ft (59 m)
Beam: 18.5 ft (5.6 m)
Draught: 7.25 ft (2.2 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:

HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894,[1] served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.

Service history

Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902,[2] for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla.[3] Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.[4]

Notes

  1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 September 1894, p.8
  2. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 20 March 1902. (36720), p. 10.
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 12 March 1902. (36713), p. 7.
  4. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 21 April 1902. (36747), p. 6.

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