HMS Recruit (1896)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Recruit.
HMS Recruit was a Clydebank three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895–1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1806 for an 18-gun brig-sloop, sold in 1822.[1]
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History | |
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Name | HMS Recruit |
Ordered | 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates |
Builder | J & G Thomson, Clydebank |
Laid down | 18 October 1895 |
Launched | 22 August 1896 |
Commissioned | October 1900 |
Fate | 1 May 1915 sunk by German submarine UB-6 in the southern North Sea |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clydebank three funnel - 30 knot destroyer |
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Length | 218 ft (66 m) o/a |
Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
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Complement | 63 officers and men |
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Service record | |
Operations: | World War I 1914 - 1918 |
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