HMS Lightning (1895)
HMS Lightning
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| Name: | HMS Lightning |
| Ordered: | 7 November 1893 |
| Builder: | Palmers |
| Laid down: | 28 March 1894 |
| Launched: | 10 April 1895 |
| Completed: | January 1896 |
| Fate: | Sunk off Kentish Knock Lightship 30 June 1915 after striking mine |
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| Class and type: | Janus-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 320 long tons (330 t) full load |
| Length: | 204 ft 6 in (62.33 m) oa |
| Beam: | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,900 ihp (2,900 kW) |
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| Speed: | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
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HMS Lightning was a Janus-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, later designated an A-class destroyer, built by Palmers and launched in 1895.
Three torpedo-boat destroyers were ordered on 7 November 1893 from the Jarrow shipbuilders, Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company for the Royal Navy as part of the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates. These three ships, Janus, Lightning and Porcupine were part of a larger group of 36 destroyers ordered as part of this shipbuilding programme, as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. The Admiralty laid down broad requirements for the destroyers, including a speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) on sea trials, with the detailed design left to the builders, resulting in each of the builders producing different designs.
Palmers' design was 204 feet 6 inches (62.33 m) long overall and 200 feet (60.96 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 19 feet 9 inches (6.02 m) and a draught of 8 feet 0 inches (2.44 m). Displacement was 275 long tons (279 t) light and 320 long tons (330 t) full load. Four Reed water tube boilers fed steam at 250 pounds per square inch (1,700 kPa) to two triple expansion steam engines rated at 3,900 indicated horsepower (2,900 kW) and driving two propeller shafts. Three funnels were fitted. Armament consisted of a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun and three 6-pounder guns, with two 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. One of the torpedo tubes could be removed to accommodate a further two six-pounders, although the Palmer 27-knotters later carried both the two torpedo tubes and all 5 six-pounder guns.
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