![]() ![]() Hornet 's water tube boilers meant that it took longer to build than Havock, launching on 23 December 1893 and completed in July 1894. ![]() ![]() Hornet was laid down at Yarrow's Poplar, London yard on 1 July 1892. Gun armament consisted of a single 12 pounder (3 in (76 mm)) gun, three 6 pounder (57 mm) guns, while torpedo armament consisted of three 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes, with one fixed bow tube and two deck mounted tubes, with the two deck-mounted tubes in a single rotating mounting, pointing in opposite directions, so that enemies on either beam could be attacked at the same time. (This resulted in Havock having 2 funnels while Hornet was fitted with 4 funnels). ![]() While both Yarrow ships were powered by triple-expansion steam engines driving two shafts, they differed in the boilers used, with Havock using 2 conventional locomotive-type fire-tube boilers while Hornet used 8 Yarrow water tube boilers. In July 1892, it was decided to place an order with the two specialised torpedo-boat builders, Yarrows and Thornycroft for two ships each, with Yarrows' two ships named Havock and Hornet. In April 1892, the British Admiralty sent out a request to several shipbuilders for designs and tenders for "large sea going torpedo boats", or what later became known as "torpedo boat destroyers". Although the Daring-class torpedo boat destroyers were ordered first, Havock and Hornet were completed faster, making them the first destroyers ever built. She was launched in 1893 and sold in 1909 for scrapping. HMS Hornet was a Havock-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. ![]()
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