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HMS Viper (1899)
HMS ''Viper'' was a Viper class destroyer, ''Viper''-class torpedo boat destroyer (or "TBD") built for the United Kingdom, British Royal Navy in 1899 by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn on the River Tyne. She was notable for being the first warship to use steam turbine propulsion and was manufactured by Parsons Marine Steam Turbines, Parsons Marine. There were four driveshaft, shafts, with two propellers on each, one inboard and one outboard of the shaft A-bracket. ''Viper'' and another turbine-powered ship, the Armstrong Whitworth special-type were both lost to accidents in 1901: ''Viper'' foundered on rocks in fog during naval manoeuvres near Alderney on 3 August 1901, while ''Cobra'' broke her back in a storm in the North Sea on 18 September 1901. Construction and design Following the success of the steam turbine, turbine-powered yacht ''Turbinia'', the British Admiralty, whose previous attempts at acquiring destroyers faster than the standard "thirty-Knotters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Viper (1899)
HMS ''Viper'' was a Viper class destroyer, ''Viper''-class torpedo boat destroyer (or "TBD") built for the United Kingdom, British Royal Navy in 1899 by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn on the River Tyne. She was notable for being the first warship to use steam turbine propulsion and was manufactured by Parsons Marine Steam Turbines, Parsons Marine. There were four driveshaft, shafts, with two propellers on each, one inboard and one outboard of the shaft A-bracket. ''Viper'' and another turbine-powered ship, the Armstrong Whitworth special-type were both lost to accidents in 1901: ''Viper'' foundered on rocks in fog during naval manoeuvres near Alderney on 3 August 1901, while ''Cobra'' broke her back in a storm in the North Sea on 18 September 1901. Construction and design Following the success of the steam turbine, turbine-powered yacht ''Turbinia'', the British Admiralty, whose previous attempts at acquiring destroyers faster than the standard "thirty-Knotters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |