Conflict-class destroyer
Three Conflict-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. All were built by the White Shipyard.
HMS Conflict | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Conflict class |
| Builders | J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Operators | Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Fervent class |
| Succeeded by | Handy class |
| In commission | 1895–1920 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Retired | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement | 320 long tons (325 t) |
| Length | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Propulsion | White-Forster boilers, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement | 53 officers and men |
| Armament |
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Under the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph), the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.
Conflict, Teazer, and Wizard were 200 feet (61 m) long, displaced 320 tons and produced 4,500 hp (3,400 kW) from their White-Forster boilers to give them a top speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph). They were armed, as was standard with ships of this type at the time, with one twelve pounder gun, two torpedo tubes and had a complement of 53 officers and men.
In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Conflict and Wizard (Teazer having been sold for scrap in 1912) as A Class destroyers.