HMS Charger (1894)

Plans for the Charger class
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Charger
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down:	November 1893
Launched:	15 September 1894
Completed:	February 1896
Fate:	Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class and type:	Charger-class destroyer
Displacement:	255 long tons (259 t)
Length:	195 ft (59 m)
Beam:	18.5 ft (5.6 m)
Draught:	7.25 ft (2.2 m)
Propulsion:	vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 3,800 hp (2,834 kW)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894,^[1] served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.

Service history

Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902,^[2] for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla.^[3] Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.^[4]

Notes

1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 September 1894, p.8
2. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36720). London. 20 March 1902. p. 10.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36713). London. 12 March 1902. p. 7.
4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36747). London. 21 April 1902. p. 6.

References

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