HMS Ariel (1897)
.jpg) HMS Ariel
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Ariel |
| Ordered | 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates |
| Builder | John I Thornycroft, Chiswick |
| Yard number | 314 |
| Laid down | 23 April 1896 |
| Launched | 5 March 1897 |
| Commissioned | October 1898 |
| Fate | Wrecked, 19 April 1907 |
| General characteristics [1][2] | |
| Class and type | Two funnel, 30 knot destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 210 ft (64 m) o/a |
| Beam | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Draught | 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) |
| Installed power | 5,700 shp (4,300 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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| Complement | 65 officers and men |
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| Service record | |
HMS Ariel was a
two funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. Named after Shakespeare's "airy spirit", or the biblical spirit of the same name, she was the ninth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy
. She was launched in 1897, served at Chatham and Malta, and was wrecked in a storm in 1907.
Construction
The
torpedo boat destroyers from John I. Thornycroft & Company as part of the 1895–96 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy. The two ships, Angler and Ariel were repeats of the four thirty-knotters ordered from Thornycroft under the previous year's programme (Desperate, Fame, Foam and Mallard) and as such shared the same design features.[3]
Thornycroft's design had three
QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre) gun, backed up by five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. An arched turtleback[a] forecastle was to be fitted.[8][9]
She was
sea trials, she reached 30.82 knots (57.08 km/h; 35.47 mph) over the measured mile and 30.194 knots (55.919 km/h; 34.747 mph) in the three-hour trial.[10] Ariel was completed in October 1898.[3]
Operational history
After commissioning Ariel was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla where she participated in the exercises with Angler in 1899. The following year she was part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla.[11] Lieutenant Henry Cyril Royds Brocklebank was appointed in command on 1 March 1900.[12]
She was commissioned at
Loss
On 19 April 1907, Ariel was wrecked when she ran aground on a breakwater just outside Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta, at night. All of her crew survived,[15] and were rescued by the destroyer Bruiser.[10]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Jane’s All the World's Fighting Ships (1898), pp.84-85.
- ^ Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I (1919), p.76.
- ^ a b c d Lyon 2001, p. 47.
- ^ Lyon 2001, pp. 45, 47.
- ^ Friedman 2009, pp. 48–49.
- ^ Manning 1961, p. 40.
- ^ "turtleback: Definitions". wordnik.com. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Lyon 2001, pp. 22–23.
- ^ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.
- ^ a b Lyon 2001, p. 48.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36052. London. 30 January 1900. p. 11.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36066. London. 15 February 1900. p. 8.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36541. London. 23 August 1901. p. 4.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36703. London. 28 February 1902. p. 5.
- ^ Kemp 1999, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J. J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1898]. Jane’s All the World's Fighting Ships 1898. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company.
- Jane, Fred T. (1990) [1919]. Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I. Jane’s Publishing. ISBN 1 85170 378 0.
- Kemp, Paul (1999). The Admiralty Regrets: British Warship Losses of the 20th Century. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1567-6.
- Lyon, David (2001) [1996]. The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam & Co. OCLC 6470051.
- March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.
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