HMS Lynx (1894)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Lynx
Builder:	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down:	July 1893
Launched:	9 December 1893
Completed:	March 1895
Fate:	Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ferret-class destroyer
Displacement:	199 long tons (202 t)
Length:	210 ft (64 m)
Beam:	19.25 ft (5.9 m)
Draught:	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 4,000 hp (2,983 kW)
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 6-pounder guns 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Lynx was a Ferret-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.

Service history

She served in the Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become tender to the HMS Defiance, torpedo school ship off Devonport.^[1]

In 1902 she served in the Channel Squadron,^[2] underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers in May,^[3]and took part in the Coronation Review for King Edward VII in August.

References

1. "Navel & Military intelligence". The Times (36054). London. 1 February 1900. p. 6.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36800). London. 21 June 1902. p. 12.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.

• Lyon, David (1996). The First Destroyers. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.
• Captain T.D. Manning, (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.