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HMS Seal (1897)
Summary
HMS Seal was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897.
Seal was ordered on 9 January 1896 as the fifth of six 30-knotter destroyers programmed to be built by Lairds under the 1895–1896 programme. These followed on from four very similar destroyers ordered from Lairds as part of the 1894–1895 programme.
Seal was long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was light and full load. Like the other Laird-built 30-knotters, Seal was propelled by two triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at , and was fitted with four funnels.
Armament was the standard for the 30-knotters, i.e. a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt ( calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.
Seal was laid down on 17 June 1896 as yard number 625 and was launched on 6 March 1897. On 24 January 1898 she carried out final sea trials, reaching an average speed of over the measured mile and on a three-hour continuous run. Seal commissioned in May 1898.
Lieutenant Arthur John Payne was appointed in command in September 1899, and she was commissioned as part of the Devonport Destroyer Instructional Flotilla. In February 1900 she was slightly damaged while in the Falmouth harbour when the destroyer dragged her moorings and drifted into several of the other ships of the flotilla. Lieutenant Victor Gallafent Gurner was appointed in command on 1 March 1900. She was scheduled for a commission on the Mediterranean station in December 1901, but owing to defects her place was taken by . She underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers during Spring 1902, and Lieutenant Harry Charles John Roberts West was appointed in command from 2 September, when she did commission at Devonport for the Mediterranean station. Arriving at Malta, she became tender to , depot ship for torpedo boats.
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