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 | |
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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.
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