HMS Seal (1897)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Seal
Builder:	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down:	17 June 1896
Launched:	6 March 1897
Completed:	May 1898
Fate:	Scrapped, 1921
General characteristics
Class and type:	Earnest-class destroyer
Displacement:	395 long tons (401 t)
Length:	210 ft (64 m)
Beam:	21.5 ft (6.6 m)
Draught:	9.75 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion:	vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 6,300 hp (4,698 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	63
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Seal was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897.

She served as part of the Devonport Destroyer Instructional Flotilla in 1901,^[1] and was scheduled to a commission on the Mediterranean station in December 1901,^[2] but owing to defects her place was taken by HMS Flying Fish.^[3] She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers in 1902.^[4]

References

1. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 19 March 1901. (36406), p. 8.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 25 November 1901. (36621), p. 10.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 6 December 1901. (36631), p. 6.
4. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 14 May 1902. (36767), p. 12.