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| Ship image               = HMS Recruit 1896.jpg
| Ship caption             = HMS ''Recruit'' in 1896
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| Built range              = 1896
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| Total ships lost         = 1
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| Ship type                = [[Destroyer]]
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| Ship notes               = Re-classified as [[C class destroyer (1913)|C-class destroyers]] in 1913
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The '''''Brazen'' class''' of 4 torpedo-boat destroyers were built by [[John Brown and Company|J & G Thomson]] at [[Clydebank]] in [[Glasgow]], from 1895 to 1900. They formed part of a general group of over seventy "turtleback" [[destroyer]]s capable of 30 knots built around the end of the 19th and into the start of the 20th century for the [[Royal Navy]].

The [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] had specified the general design and specification of the destroyers but left it to the builders to handle the detail.  As a result, although the destroyers were all similarly capable there were differences between them in terms of exact dimensions, type of [[boiler]] and [[engine]]s and the number of [[funnel]]s.  They were seaworthy and well built but suffered from being lively which meant they were uncomfortable in heavy seas.  Although specified for 30 knots this was with a light load, and in service 27 knots was normal.

In 1913 all the three-funnelled destroyers were reclassified as [[C class destroyer (1913)|C-class destroyers]].

==Ships==
{| class=wikitable
|'''Name'''
|'''Launched'''
|'''Fate'''
|-
|[[HMS Brazen (1896)|HMS ''Brazen'']] 
|3 July 1896
|Broken up in 1919<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/brazen_class.htm|title=''Brazen'' class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2009-04-03}}</ref>
|- 
|[[HMS Electra (1896)|HMS ''Electra'']]
|14 July 1896
|Broken up in 1920<ref name=BC/>
|- 
|[[HMS Recruit (1896)|HMS ''Recruit'']] 
|22 August 1896
|Torpedoed in 1915<ref name=BC/>
|- 
|[[HMS Vulture (1898)|HMS ''Vulture'']]
|22 March 1898
|Broken up in 1919<ref name=BC/>
|}

==References==
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{{C class destroyer}}

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