HMS ''Ferret'' was a which served with the
Royal Navy
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from 1893 and was sunk in 1911.
Construction
''Ferret'' was armed with one
12-pounder and three 6-pounder guns, and three torpedo tubes (two on deck mounts and one fixed bow tube). The bow tube was soon removed, and provision was made for removing the deck tubes and substituting two extra 6-pounder guns. She carried a complement of 42 (later raised to 53). Later in her career she was fitted out for
boom breaking as an experiment. Her forebridge, gun and bow tube were removed and the turtle backed
forecastle
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was strengthened for this purpose.
Service history
''Ferret'' was launched on 9 December 1893 and completed in 1895.
She served in the
Devonport instructional flotilla, when in early February 1900 she was transferred to become
tender to , gunnery ship off
Plymouth.
She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers during Spring 1902, following which she was in July that year transferred to succeed as tender to , torpedo school ship at Devonport.
She took part in the
Coronation Review
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for King
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...
on 16 August 1902, with Lieutenant Arthur William Tomlinson temporarily in command from 8 August.
She was sunk as a target in 1911.
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Ferret-class destroyers
1893 ships
Ships sunk as targets