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HMS Boxer (1894)
Career Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom
Name: HMS Boxer
Builder: Thornycroft, Chiswick
Laid down: 1894
Launched: 28 November 1894
Christened: Miss Joan Thornycroft
Fate: Sunk after collision, 8 February 1918
General characteristics
Class & type: Ardent-class destroyer
Displacement: 265 long tons (269 t)
Length: 200 ft (61 m)
Propulsion: Triple expansion steam engines
Coal-fired water-tube boilers
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement: 53
Armament: • 1 × 12-pounder gun
• 5 × 6-pounder guns
• 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Boxer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1894.[1]

At the launch on 28 November 1894 at Chiswick the destroyer was named by Miss Joan Thornycroft, daughter of the artist Hamo Thornycroft and niece of the yards founder John Isaac Thornycroft.[2]

She served with the Mediterranean Squadron in 1901.[3]

Boxer collided with the merchant ship SS St Patrick in the English Channel on 8 February 1918, sinking as a result.[4]

References[]

  1. "HMS Boxer". pbenyon.plus.com. http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00649.html. Retrieved 27 July 2010. 
  2. "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". 30 November 1893. 
  3. "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". 19 April 1901. 
  4. Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 18.
  • Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. 
  • Manning, Captain T.D (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.. 

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Coordinates: 50°36′08″N 01°06′02″W / 50.60222°N 1.10056°W / 50.60222; -1.10056


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