Gipsy-class destroyer
Class overview | |
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Name: | Gipsy class |
Builders: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland |
Operators: | Royal Navy |
Built: | 1896–1901 |
In commission: | 1895–1919 |
Completed: | 6 |
Lost: | 2 |
Scrapped: | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Torpedo boat destroyer |
Displacement: | 350 long tons (356 t) |
Length: | 209.75 ft (63.93 m) |
Beam: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Draught: | 8 ft 2 in (2.5 m) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement: | 63 |
Armament: |
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Three Gipsy-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy;[1] Osprey, Fairy and Gipsy were three funnelled 30-knot (56 km/h) C-class destroyers built by Fairfield with Thorneycroft boilers. Leven, Falcon and Ostrich are sometime referred to as the Falcon class but are here listed under the Gipsy class. These 209-foot (64 m) long ships were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes and all served in the First World War in home waters.
Ships
Name | Launched | Fate |
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Osprey | 7 April 1897 | Broken up in 1919[1] |
Fairy | 29 May 1897 | Foundered 1918[1] |
Gipsy | 9 March 1897 | Sold 1921[1] |
Leven | 28 June 1898 | Broken up in 1920[2] |
Falcon | 29 December 1899 | Collided with another vessel in 1918[3][4] |
Ostrich | 22 March 1900 | Broken up in 1920[3] |
See also
Media related to Gipsy class destroyer at Wikimedia Commons
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Gypsy class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ↑ "Leven at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- 1 2 "Falcon class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ↑ See British National Archives ADM 1/8522/112 "Court Martial on loss of HMS FALCON in collision with HM Armed Trawler JOHN FITZGERALD" http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=6004257
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