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HMS Salmon (1895)

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Name
  
HMS Salmon

Completed
  
January 1896

Class and type
  
Launched
  
15 January 1895

Draft
  
2.36 m

Laid down
  
12 March 1894

Fate
  
Scrapped, 1912

Construction started
  
12 March 1894

Length
  
62 m

Builder
  
Earl's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Hull, Yorkshire

HMS Salmon was a Salmon-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1895, served in home waters and was sold off in 1911.

Operational details

In late 1901 Salmon was damaged in an accident, and temporarily repaired at Harwich by shipwrights from Sheerness Dockyard in December 1901. The following month she was paid off at Sheerness, and ordered into dry dock for repairs. She underwent repairs later in 1902.

References

HMS Salmon (1895) Wikipedia


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