HMS Virago (1895)
.jpg) HMS Virago firing in honour of the King, 1901 | |
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| Name: | HMS Virago |
| Builder: | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 13 June 1895 |
| Launched: | 19 November 1895 |
| Completed: | June 1897 |
| Fate: | Sold for disposal, 10 October 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Quail-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 395 long tons (401 t) |
| Length: | 215 ft (66 m) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 63 |
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HMS Virago was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, in 1897. One of four Quail-class destroyers she served during the Great War and was sold off after hostilities ended.[1]
Construction
HMS Virago was laid down at Laird's shipyard at Birkenhead on 13 June 1895, the fourth "Thirty-Knotter" destroyer ordered from Lairds for the Royal Navy as part of the 1894–95 shipbuilding programme.[2] The ship was launched on 19 November 1895,[2] undergoing sea trials on 27 November 1896, where she reached a speed of 30.365 knots (34.943 mph; 56.236 km/h) over the measured mile and an average speed of 30.049 knots (34.580 mph; 55.651 km/h) over a three-hour run.[3] Virago was completed in June 1897.[2]
Service history
Virago was posted at the Pacific Station, and in January 1902 Lieutenant A. B. Barker was appointed in command.[4]
References
- ↑ "HMS Virago". pbenyon.plus.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- 1 2 3 Lyon 2001, p. 61.
- ↑ "Eight Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Built by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead. — Trials between 30th September and the 18th December 1896" (PDF). The Engineer. Vol. 83. 1 January 1897. p. 16..
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36655). London. 3 January 1902.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
External links
- HMS VIRAGO - August 1914 to July 1915, August 1917 to May 1919, China Station Logbooks as part of Old Weather Project