HMS Speedy

Type:
Torpedo Gunboat
Class:
Builder:
John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd.
Chiswick, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
May 18, 1893
Keel Laid:
January 4, 1892
Completed:
February 20, 1892
Fate:
Sunk Sept. 3, 1914 by a mine laid by SMS Nautilus (Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Schultz)

Location: North Sea, 61 miles east of Grimsby, England.

1 man lost (Officer's Steward 2nd Class Edwin Arnold Claxton, R.N.)
Notes:
Only ship in class to have three funnels.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 8, 2020