HMS Snapper (1895)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Snapper.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Snapper
Builder: Earl's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Hull, Yorkshire
Laid down: 2 April 1894
Launched: 30 January 1895
Completed: January 1896
Fate: Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class & type: Salmon-class destroyer
Displacement: 305 long tons (310 t)
Length: 204.75 ft (62.41 m)
Beam: 19.5 ft (5.9 m)
Draught: 7.75 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:

HMS Snapper was a Salmon-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1895, and served in home waters.

She served as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla in 1901.[1] Lieutenant John Foster Grant-Dalton was appointed in command on 14 February 1902.[2] She docked for repairs to her stem in late May 1902,[3] but was back in the North Sea by early June.[4]

She was sold off in 1911.

Notes

  1. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 22 March 1901. (36409), p. 11.
  2. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 25 February 1902. (36700), p. 11.
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 23 May 1902. (36775), p. 4.
  4. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 5 June 1902. (36786), p. 7.

References

Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co. 


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