HMS Sunfish (1895)
Sunfish | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Sunfish |
| Ordered | 7 February 1894 |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn |
| Laid down | 17 September 1894 |
| Launched | 28 May 1895 |
| Commissioned | 1896 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap on 7 June 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Hawthorn Leslie "Twenty-seven knotter" |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 204 ft 0 in (62.18 m) oa |
| Beam | 19 ft 0 in (5.79 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
| Installed power | 4,000 ihp (3,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) (contract speed) |
| Range | 1,175 nmi (2,176 km; 1,352 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 53 |
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HMS Sunfish was a "twenty-seven knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Built by the Tyneside shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie, Sunfish was one of three Sunfish-class destroyers built by Hawthorns and laid down in 1894. She was sold for scrap in 1920.