HMS Cheerful (1897)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Cheerful.
HMS Cheerful was a 30-knot, three-funnel torpedo boat destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. She was ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates, launched in 1898, and saw action during World War I. She was mined off the Shetland Islands in 1917 and sank with the loss of 44 officers and men.
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Name | HMS Cheerful |
Ordered | 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates |
Builder | R.W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne |
Cost | £54,509[1] |
Yard number | 343[1] |
Laid down | 7 September 1896 |
Launched | 14 July 1897[Note 1] |
Commissioned | June 1899 |
Fate | Mined on 30 June 1917 |
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Class and type | Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer |
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Length | 215 ft (66 m) o/a |
Beam | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) |
Installed power | 6,100 ihp (4,500 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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Complement | 63 officers and men |
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Service record | |
Operations: | World War I 1914 - 1918 |
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