HMS Ardent
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Name: | HMS Ardent |
Builder: | William Denny & Brothers Limited, Dumbarton |
Launched: | 8 September 1913 |
Fate: | Sunk at Battle of Jutland on 1 June 1916 |
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Class and type: | Acasta-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 935 tons |
Length: | 267 ft 6 in (81.53 m) |
Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Installed power: | 24,500 ihp (18,300 kW) |
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Speed: | 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Complement: | 75 |
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Coordinates: 56°42′N 5°52′E / 56.700°N 5.867°E
HMS Ardent was an Acasta-class destroyer and the seventh Royal Navy ship to bear the name. She was launched in 1913 and was sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
HMS Ardent was built using longitudinal framing rather than conventional transverse framing. She was laid down under the 1911–1912 construction programme by William Denny & Brothers Limited and launched on 8 September 1913. She was temporarily renamed HMS Kenric in October 1913, but this was reverted shortly afterwards.
She joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla on completion and served with the Grand Fleet on the outbreak of the First World War.
She was sunk on 1 June 1916 during the Battle of Jutland by secondary fire from the German dreadnought SMS Westfalen. Seventy-eight men went down with the ship, there were only 2 survivors.
The wrecksite is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.