HMS Lightning (1895)

Type:
Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Class:
A
Builder:
Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd
Jarrow-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
November 7, 1893
Commissioned:
January 1895
Keel Laid:
March 28, 1894
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
April 10, 1895
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Sunk June 30, 1915 by a mine laid by UC-1.

Location: North Sea near Kentish Knock lightvessel.

15 crewmen killed, unknown number of survivors.
(Roll of Honour)


Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
204' 6"
Engines:
2 four cylinder triple expansion
Beam:
19' 9"
Boilers:
4 (250 psi)
Draft:
8'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
275 std. / 320 full
HP:
3,900
Speed:
27 knots
Crew:
50
Range:
N/A


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
2
3" (76mm)
12 pounder

single mounts
11,750 yards @ 40° (6.6 miles)
5
2.2" (57mm)
6 pounder
single mounts
8,700 yards @ 40° (4.9 miles)
2
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
single launchers
N/A


Class Overview
Builder's Data
Page published July 2, 2008