HMS Hazard (1894)
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HMS Hazard
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hazard |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1892 |
| Launched: | 14 February 1894 |
| Commissioned: | 24 July 1895 |
| Fate: | Sunk in collision on 28 January 1918 |
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| Class and type: | Dryad-class torpedo gunboat |
| Tons burthen: | 1070 tons |
| Length: | 262 ft 6 in (80.0 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,500 ihp (2,600 kW) |
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| Speed: | 18.2 kn (33.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 120 |
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Coordinates: 50°43′37″N 01°03′14″W / 50.72694°N 1.05389°W
The sixth HMS Hazard was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat. She was launched in 1894 and was converted into the world's first submarine depot ship in 1901. She collided with the submarine A3 on 2 February 1912, killing 14 men, and was herself sunk in collision with SS Western Australia on 28 January 1918.
Ordered under the Naval Defence Act of 1889, which established the "Two-Power Standard", the class was contemporary with the first torpedo boat destroyers. With a length overall of 262 ft 6 in (80.01 m), a beam of 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) and a displacement of 1,070 tons, these torpedo gunboats were not small ships by the standard of the time; they were larger than the majority of World War I destroyers. Hazard was engined by Fairfield with two sets of vertical triple-expansion steam engines, two locomotive-type boilers, and twin screws. This layout produced 3,500 indicated horsepower (2,600 kW), giving her a speed of 18.2 knots (33.7 km/h). She carried between 100 and 160 tons of coal and was manned by 120 sailors and officers.
The armament when built comprised two QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns, four 6-pounder guns and a single 5-barrelled Nordenfelt machine gun. Her primary weapon was five 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes, with two reloads. On conversion to a minesweeper in 1914 two of the five torpedoes were removed.
On 26 June 1897 Halcyon was present at the Fleet Review at Spithead in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
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