HMS Dasher (1894)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Dasher
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down:	December 1893
Launched:	28 November 1894
Completed:	March 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 Dasher was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1895, served in home waters and was sold in 1911.

In March 1901 she was commissioned at Chatham Dockyard to take place in the Medway Instructional Flotilla.^[1] She was re-commissioned by Lieutenant H. C. J. R. West on 17 January 1902, still in the Medway flotilla,^[2] but two months later was transferred to the Devonport instructional flotilla,^[3] under the command of Lieutenant J. G. de O. Coke from 18 March 1902.^[4]

Notes

1. "Naval and Military intelligence". The Times (36392). London. 2 March 1901. p. 9.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36667). London. 17 January 1902. p. 9.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36713). London. 12 March 1902. p. 7.
4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36720). London. 20 March 1902. p. 10.

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.