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HMS Charger (1894)

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Name
  
HMS Charger

Completed
  
February 1896

Displacement
  
255 long tons (259 t)

Launched
  
15 September 1894

Draft
  
2.21 m

Laid down
  
November 1893

Fate
  
Scrapped, 1912

Construction started
  
November 1893

Length
  
59 m

Builder
  
Yarrow Shipbuilders

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Class and type
  
Charger-class destroyer

HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894, served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.

Service history

Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902, for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla. Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.

References

HMS Charger (1894) Wikipedia