HMS Electra (1896)

History
Name	HMS Electra
Ordered	1895 Naval Programme
Laid down	18 October 1895
Launched	14 July 1896
Commissioned	July 1900
Fate	Sold for scrap, 29 April 1920
General characteristics
Type	Brazen-class destroyer
Displacement	380 long tons (386 t) standard 425 long tons (432 t) full load
Length	214 ft (65.2 m) p/p 210 ft (64.0 m) o/a
Beam	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draught	8 ft 3 in (2.51 m)
Propulsion	2 Triple expansion engines, 5,800 ihp 2 shafts
Speed	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement	63
Armament	1 × 12-pounder gun 5 × QF 6-pounder guns (5×1) 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes (2×1)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Electra.

HMS Electra was a Brazen class destroyer, later categorized as a C class destroyer, built at J & G Thomson Shipbuilding Company (which in a few years would be renamed John Brown & Company), at their Clydeside yard. She was one of the three-funnelled ships of the 1895 Naval Programme. She was launched on 14 July 1896, but not completed until July 1900 because of severe labour troubles in the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain at that time.

She carried the pennant number N25 from 12 June 1914 until 9 January 1915, then D52 until 1 January 1918, and then D31 until she was decommissioned. She served in World War I, being used mostly for coastal patrol work and for escorting coastal convoys around Great Britain. She was sold for scrapping to Barking Ship Breaking Company on 29 April 1920.

References

• Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860 - 1905 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1978)
• Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1921 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985)

External links

• http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm