HMS Earnest (1896)
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | HMS Earnest |
Builder: | Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead |
Laid down: | 2 March 1896 |
Launched: | 11 November 1896 |
Completed: | November 1897 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Earnest-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 395 long tons (401 t) |
Length: | 210 ft (64 m) |
Beam: | 21.5 ft (6.6 m) |
Draught: | 9.75 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement: | 63 |
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HMS Earnest was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy, one of six to be built from the line.[1] She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1896, after 609 days of construction.[2] She was part of the new 30-knotters that were requested by the Admiralty, amid fears of foreign boats and their speeds the requirements were increased from 27 knots.[citation needed]
She served with the Mediterranean Squadron, and was in August 1901 recommissioned at Malta as tender to the battleship HMS Caesar.[3]
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