HMS Lively (1900)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Lively
Builder:	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down:	20 June 1899
Launched:	14 July 1900
Completed:	April 1902
Fate:	Scrapped, 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lively-class destroyer
Displacement:	385 long tons (391 t)
Length:	219 ft (67 m)
Beam:	21.25 ft (6.5 m)
Draught:	8 ft 7 in (2.6 m)
Propulsion:	Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 6,250 hp (4,661 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 6-pounder guns 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Lively was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built speculatively by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, pre-empting further orders for vessels of this type, and was bought by the navy in 1901.

Operational history

HMS Lively was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant James Rose Price Hawksley on 13 May 1902,^[1] with the crew of the HMS Ostrich, taking that ship´s place in the Instructional flotilla ^[2]

References

1. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 21 May 1902. (36773), p. 10.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 10 May 1902. (36764), p. 8.