HMS Vixen (1900)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vixen.
HMS Vixen was a Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fourth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1801 for an 18-gun brig sold 1815.[3][4]
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Name | Vixen |
Ordered | 1898 – 1898 Naval Estimates |
Builder | Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness |
Laid down | 7 September 1899 |
Launched | 29 March 1900 |
Commissioned | March 1902 |
Decommissioned | 1919 |
Out of service | Laid up in reserve 1919 |
Fate | 17 March 1921 sold to Thos W Ward for breaking at Grays, Essex, on the Thames Estuary |
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Class and type | Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer[1][2] |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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Complement | 63 officers and men |
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