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HMS Hart (1895)
HMS ''Hart'' was one of three s built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Completed in 1895 she spent most of her career on the China Station and was sold in 1912. Description Ordered as part of the 1893–1894 Naval Programme, the ''Hardy''-class torpedo boat destroyers were Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's first such ships. They Displacement (ship), displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had an length overall, overall length of , a beam (nautical), beam of and a draft (hull), draught of . They were powered by a pair of Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft using steam provided by four John I. Thornycroft & Company, Thornycroft water-tube boilers. The engines developed a total of and were intended to give a maximum speed of .Friedman, p. 291 During her sea trials ''Hart'' reached from . The ''Hardy''s carried a maximum of of coal that gave them a range of at . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfield Shipbuilding And Engineering Company
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War. It also built many transatlantic liners, including record-breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific, such as the Blue Riband-winning sisters RMS ''Campania'' and RMS ''Lucania''. At the other end of the scale, Fairfields built fast cross-channel mail steamers and ferries for locations around the world. These included ships for the Bosporus crossing in Istanbul and some of the early ships used by Thomas Cook for developing tourism on the River Nile. John Elder & Co and predecessors Millwright Randolph & Elliott Charles Randolph founded the company as Randolph & Co. He had been an apprentice at the Clyde shipyard of Robert Napier, and at William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
