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HMS Orwell (1898)

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HMS Orwell was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Laird, Son & Company, and served from 1900 until 1920. As part of the 1897–1898 construction programme for the Royal Navy, the British Admiralty placed an order with Laird, Son & Company of Birkenhead for a single "thirty-knotter" destroyer. Laird's design was based on the of six destroyers ordered under the 1895–1896 programme, which were in turn closely based on Laird's ordered under the 1894–1895 programme. Orwell had an overall length of , with a beam of and a draught of . The ship was powered by two triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at and was fitted with four funnels, giving a speed of 30 knots. Displacement was light and full load. Armament was as normal for the "thirty-knotters", with 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. HMS Orwell was laid down on 9 November 1897 and launched on 29 September 1898. Orwell completed in January 1900, joining the Mediterranean Squadron in April that year. In September 1902 she visited Nauplia with other ships of the squadron. On 30 January 1903, Orwell collided with the cruiser HMS Pioneer during night exercises near Corfu. Orwells bow was cut off in the collision with the loss of 15 of her crew. Orwell returned to the United Kingdom in 1906, remaining in home waters for the rest of her Royal Navy career. In 1910, Orwell was part of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla at Devonport, supported by the destroyer depot ship , and was still a part of the same flotilla in 1912. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on appearance. to provide some system to the naming of HM destroyers. "30 knotter" vessels with 4 funnels, were classified by the Admiralty as the B-class, the 3-funnelled, "30 knotters" became the C-class and the 2-funnelled ships the D-class).

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