HMS Dasher (1894)

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Name HMS Dasher Completed March 1896 Displacement 255 long tons (259 t) Launched 28 November 1894 Draft 2.21 m		Laid down December 1893 Fate Scrapped, 1912 Construction started December 1893 Length 59 m Builder Yarrow Shipbuilders

Class and type Charger-class destroyer

HMS Dasher was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1895, served in home waters and was sold in 1911.

In March 1901 she was commissioned at Chatham Dockyard to take place in the Medway Instructional Flotilla. She was re-commissioned by Lieutenant H. C. J. R. West on 17 January 1902, still in the Medway flotilla, but two months later was transferred to the Devonport instructional flotilla, under the command of Lieutenant J. G. de O. Coke from 18 March 1902.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.

References

HMS Dasher (1894) Wikipedia

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